Herbert Lehman - Banker, U.S. Sen & Gov. of New York/B&W Pach Bros. Signed Photo

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Herbert Lehman - U.S. Senator & Governor of New York/B&W “Pach Bros.” Signed Photo
Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963) - American banker and Democratic Party politician from New York. He served from 1933 until 1942 as the 45th Governor of New York and represented New York State in the U. S. Senate from 1949 until 1957.
Lehman became active in politics in 1920 and became chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic Party in 1928 as a reward for having been a strong supporter of Alfred E. Smith. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1928 and 1930 and resigned from Lehman Brothers upon taking office. He then served four terms as Governor of New York, elected in 1932 to replace Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had been running for President), and re-elected in 1934, 1936 and 1938 (when he was elected to New York's first four-year gubernatorial term). Unlike Smith, Lehman was a supporter of Roosevelt’s New Deal and implemented a similar program in New York.
On December 3, 1942, he resigned the governorship less than a month before the end of his term, to accept an appointment as director of foreign relief and rehabilitation operations for the U.S. Department of State. He served as director-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration from 1943 to 1946.
Lehman was the Democratic nominee for US Senator from New York in 1946 and also ran on the Liberal and American Labor tickets but was defeated by the Republican candidate, Irving Ives. In 1949, he ran again, this time in a special election to serve the remainder of Robert F. Wagner’s term. Lehman defeated John Foster Dulles, who had been appointed to temporarily fill the vacancy after Wagner's resignation, and he took his seat on January 3, 1950.
In the campaign, he ran on the Democratic and Liberal tickets, with the American Labor Party urging their members not to vote for any candidate. In 1950, Lehman was re-elected to a full term, running on Democratic and Liberal lines and opposed by the American Labor Party.
Lehman was one of two US senators who were opposed to nominating Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (The other was Wayne Morse of Oregon.) He was also an early and vocal opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.). Lehman was one of the most liberal senators and was therefore not considered part of the Senate's "club" of insiders. He retired from the Senate after his full term and was not a candidate for renomination in 1956.
Lehman was the first, and until the 2007 inauguration of Eliot Spitzer, the only Jewish governor of New York. During much of his Senate career, he was the only Jewish Senator as well. Unlike most of his Jewish constituents, who had immigrated to the US from Eastern Europe, Lehman's family was from Germany.
11“ x 14“ black and white “Pach Bros.”photograph, with the image size being 7.5” x 8.44” signed in fountain pen in the border,  adding “U.S. Senator from New York.” Matted to an overall size of 12” x 16” and ready to be framed. Very fine.
Pach Brothers, founded in 1867, was the oldest photography studio in the United States until they closed in 1993. They were known for their fine portraits of U.S. Presidents and politicians, among others.
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