Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963

found: NUCMC data from Library of Congress, Manuscript Div. for Rosenwald, L.J. Papers, 1819-1980(Herbert H. Lehman; Herbert Henry Lehman, 1878-1963; gov. and U.S. sen. from N.Y.)

found: LC data base 4/2/87(Hdg.: Lehman, Herbert Henry, 1878-1963; usage: Herbert H. Lehman)

found: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, September 24, 2013(Lehman, Herbert Henry (1878-1963); a Senator from New York; born in New York City, March 28, 1878; attended Sachs Collegiate Institute in New York City; graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1899; employed by the J. Spencer Turner Co., textile manufacturers; in 1908 became partner in Lehman Bros., investment bankers in New York City; during the First World War was commissioned a captain in the United States Army in August 1917, later attained the rank of colonel on the General Staff, and served until April 1919; lieutenant governor of New York, 1929-1932; Governor, 1933-1942; Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations in the State Department, Washington, D.C., 1943; Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1943-1946; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1946; member of Public Advisory Board of the Economic Cooperation Administration, 1948; elected on November 8, 1949 as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert F. Wagner; reelected in 1950 and served from November 9, 1949, until January 3, 1957; was not a candidate for renomination in 1956; was a resident of New York City until his death there on December 5, 1963; posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 28, 1964)