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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Morgenthau-Lehman family of New York City, New York</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.</p> <p>This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.</p> <p>These groupings — even the <i>names</i> of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.</p> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Mannheim, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/04-26.html">April 26, 1856</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-diplomats.html ">Turkey</a>, 1913-16; director, Underwood <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/typewriter.html">Typewriter</a> Company; director, Equitable <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Life Assurance</a> Society of U.S.; president, Herald Square <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Realty</a> Company; director, Mt. Sinai <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/11-25.html">November 25, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 213 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms04206">Mt. Pleasant Cemetery</a>, Hawthorne, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Lazarus Morgenthau and Babette (Guggenheim) Morgenthau; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/05-10.html">May 10, 1883</a>, to Josephine Sykes; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#535.75.52">Henry Morgenthau Jr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#617.00.23">Robert Morris Morgenthau</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/morgenthau-henry ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/487/76.81.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Irving Lehman"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Irving Lehman (1876-1945)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-28.html">January 28, 1876</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1909-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1924-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coacj.html">chief judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1940-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jewish-comm.html">American Jewish Committee</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in Port Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/09-22.html">September 22, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 237 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms02622">Cypress Hills National Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Mayer Lehman and Babette (Newgass) Lehman; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#123.76.63">Herbert Henry Lehman</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/06-26.html">June 26, 1901</a>, to Sissie Straus (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#770.49.32">Nathan Straus Jr.</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving Lehman">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1936</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/123/76.63.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Herbert H. Lehman"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963)</b> — also known as <b>Herbert H. Lehman</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/03-28.html">March 28, 1878</a>. Democrat. Director, Consolidated <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton Duck</a> Co., Imperial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> Co., U.S. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton Duck</a> Co., Washington Mills; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NY.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/NY.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NY.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NY.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NY.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/NY.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1933-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1949-57; defeated, 1946. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jewish-comm.html">American Jewish Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-gamma-delta.html">Phi Gamma Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. Awarded the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> posthumously in 1963; inducted into the Jewish-American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/other-hof.html">Hall of Fame</a> in 1974. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/12-05.html">December 5, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 252 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms00164">Kensico Cemetery</a>, Valhalla, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Mayer Lehman and Babette (Newgass) Lehman; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#487.76.81">Irving Lehman</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/04-28.html">April 28, 1910</a>, to Edith Louise Altschul; father of Peter Lehman; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#964.99.60">Elinor Fatman Morgenthau</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#617.00.23">Robert Morris Morgenthau</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#374.78.48">Orin Lehman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockyer-loftus.html#421.66.48">John Langeloth Loeb Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/soapy-solwin.html#978.93.09">Nathan R. Sobel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corcoran.html#413.16.83">Thomas L. J. Corcoran</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Lehman <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">College</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-names.html">Bronx, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000224">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406728">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/herbert-henry-lehman/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert H. Lehman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/860/000161377">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1936</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Nathan Straus Jr. (1889-1961)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/05-27.html">May 27, 1889</a>. Democrat. Partner, R. H. Macy & Co. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">department store</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/NY.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NY.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NY.html">1940</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NY.html">1944</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 15th District, 1921-26; Chief, U.S. Housing Authority, 1937-42. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>. Died, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">motel room</a> at Massapequa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/09-13.html">September 13, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 109 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms04206">Mt. Pleasant Cemetery</a>, Hawthorne, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Nathan Straus and Lina (Gutherz) Straus; brother of Sissie Straus (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#487.76.81">Irving Lehman</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/04-29.html">April 29, 1915</a>, to Helen E. Sachs; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#363.05.73">Ronald Peter Straus</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#369.88.99">Isidor Straus</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#575.76.31">Oscar Solomon Straus</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#358.36.62">Jesse Isidor Straus</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schauber-schemanske.html#366.74.81">Stuart Scheftel</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0218.html">Straus family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/95315846">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891-1967)</b> — of Hopewell Junction, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y.; Wiccopee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/05-11.html">May 11, 1891</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NY.html">1932</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1934-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/02-06.html">February 6, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms04206">Mt. Pleasant Cemetery</a>, Hawthorne, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#171.86.38">Henry Morgenthau</a> and Josephine (Sykes) Morgenthau; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/11-21.html">November 21, 1951</a>, to Marcella Puthan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/04-17.html">April 17, 1916</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#964.99.60">Elinor Fatman</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#617.00.23">Robert Morris Morgenthau</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Morgenthau, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/060/000117706">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/735">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Henry Morgenthau, Jr.:</i> Herbert Levy, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1602399719/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1602399719&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Henry Morgenthau, Jr.: The Remarkable Life of FDR's Secretary of the Treasury</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Elinor Fatman Morgenthau (1892-1949)</b> — also known as <b>Elinor F. Morgenthau</b>; <b>Elinor Fatman</b> — of Hopewell Junction, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/02-19.html">February 19, 1892</a>. Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/liver.html">liver ailment</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/ny-hospital.html">New York Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/09-21.html">September 21, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 214 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms04206">Mt. Pleasant Cemetery</a>, Hawthorne, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Morris Fatman and Settie (Lehman) Fatman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/04-17.html">April 17, 1916</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#535.75.52">Henry Morgenthau Jr.</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#123.76.63">Herbert Henry Lehman</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12237013">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901-1981)</b> — also known as <b>William H. Vanderbilt</b> — of Portsmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-lived.html">Newport County</a>, R.I.; South Williamstown, Williamstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE-lived.html">Berkshire County</a>, Mass. Born in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-born.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/11-24.html">November 24, 1901</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1928-34; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/RI.html">1928</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/officers.html">Convention Vice-President</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/RI.html">1936</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1939-41; defeated, 1940. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in South Williamstown, Williamstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE-died.html">Berkshire County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/04-14.html">April 14, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 141 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE-buried.html# ">Southlawn Cemetery</a>, Williamstown, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzsimmons-fladeland.html#003.12.24">Ellen French Vanderbilt</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/11-01.html">November 1, 1923</a>, to Emily Davies; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/11-27.html">November 27, 1929</a>, to Anne Gordon Colby (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coker-coldwell.html#261.22.02">Everett Colby</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coker-coldwell.html#499.98.75">Edith Hyde Colby</a>); uncle of Wendy Vanderbilt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#374.78.48">Orin Lehman</a>); grandnephew by marriage of Alva (Smith) Vanderbilt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#345.62.45">Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont</a>); great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/french-frensdorf.html#906.20.53">Benjamin Brown French</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trump-tuck.html#621.27.90">Amos Tuck</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flagg-flake.html#080.72.27">Henry Collins Flagg</a> and Cornelius 'Commodore' Vanderbilt; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#195.47.82">Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burcham-burdette.html#493.89.19">William Armistead Moale Burden</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burcham-burdette.html#072.10.10">Shirley Carter Burden Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0228.html">Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1398.html">Dows-Burden family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0611.html">Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-henry-vanderbilt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Henry Vanderbilt III">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/482/000167978">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/40573555">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Morris Morgenthau (1919-2019)</b> — also known as <b>Robert M. Morgenthau</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/07-31.html">July 31, 1919</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1961-62, 1962-70; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1962; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-officials.html">New York County District Attorney</a>, 1975-2009. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died, in Lenox Hill <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2019/07-21.html">July 21, 2019</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/99.html">99 years, 355 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#535.75.52">Henry Morgenthau Jr.</a> and Elinor (Fatman) Morgenthau; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/">1977</a> to Lucinda Franks; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#171.86.38">Henry Morgenthau</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#123.76.63">Herbert Henry Lehman</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockyer-loftus.html#421.66.48">John Langeloth Loeb Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Morgenthau">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Orin Lehman (1920-2008)</b> — also known as <b>"Father Nature"</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/01-14.html">January 14, 1920</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; injured during the Battle of the Bulge and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost a leg</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; chairman, Colgreen <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">Broadcasting</a> Group, owner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio stations</a>; founder, Just One Break, Inc., not-for-profit employment service for people with disabilities; campaign manager, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnquist-burns.html#732.19.84">John J. Burns</a> for Lieutenant Governor, 1962; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 17th District, 1966; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">producer</a> of several popular off-Broadway plays; New York State Commissioner of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, 1975-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jewish-comm.html">American Jewish Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/02-22.html">February 22, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 39 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Allan Sigmund Lehman and Evelyn 'Eve' (Schiffer) Lehman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/07-23.html">July 23, 1962</a>, to Jane (Bagley) Long; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/10-24.html">October 24, 1970</a>, to Wendy Vanderbilt (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#418.17.41">William Henry Vanderbilt III</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#123.76.63">Herbert Henry Lehman</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0228.html">Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0215.html">Vanderbilt-Tuck-Pickering-Webster family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0091.html">Butler-Perry-Belmont-Slidell family</a> of Edgefield, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0611.html">Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Langeloth Loeb Jr. (b. 1930)</b> — also known as <b>John L. Loeb, Jr.</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/05-02.html">May 2, 1930</a>. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-diplomats.html ">Denmark</a>, 1981-83. Still living as of 1996. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John Langeloth Loeb and Frances (Lehman) Loeb; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#123.76.63">Herbert Henry Lehman</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#617.00.23">Robert Morris Morgenthau</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Loeb House (offices, built 1940), at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> and his father.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/loeb-john-langeloth ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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