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Schmidt Jr.</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">20th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Yale_University" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Yale University">President of Yale University</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1986–1992</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/A._Bartlett_Giamatti" class="mw-redirect" title="A. Bartlett Giamatti">A. Bartlett Giamatti</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Howard_R._Lamar" title="Howard R. Lamar">Howard R. Lamar</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Benno Charles Schmidt Jr.</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1942-03-20</span>)</span>March 20, 1942<br />New York City, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 9, 2023<span style="display:none">(2023-07-09)</span> (aged 81)<br /><a href="/wiki/Millbrook,_New_York" title="Millbrook, New York">Millbrook, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy" title="Phillips Exeter Academy">Phillips Exeter Academy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Benno Charles Schmidt Jr.</b> (March 20, 1942 – July 9, 2023) was an American academic and education executive. From 1986 to 1992, he was 20th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Yale_University" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Yale University">president of Yale University</a>. Prior, Schmidt was <a href="/wiki/Dean_(education)" title="Dean (education)">Dean</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" title="Columbia Law School">Columbia Law School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Fiske_Stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Harlan Fiske Stone">Harlan Fiske Stone</a>, professor of <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_law" title="Constitutional law">constitutional law</a>, and chairman of <a href="/wiki/EdisonLearning" title="EdisonLearning">Edison Schools</a> (now EdisonLearning). He lastly served as the chairman of <a href="/wiki/Avenues:_The_World_School" title="Avenues: The World School">Avenues: The World School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a for-profit, private K-12 school, and as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the <a href="/wiki/City_University_of_New_York" title="City University of New York">City University of New York</a> (CUNY) from 2003 to 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A noted scholar of the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment</a>, the history of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a>, and the history of <a href="/wiki/Race_relations" title="Race relations">race relations</a> in American law, Schmidt clerked for <a href="/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Earl Warren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court">Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kauffman_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kauffman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1998, Schmidt was appointed chair of a task force established by New York City Mayor <a href="/wiki/Rudolph_Giuliani" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolph Giuliani">Rudolph Giuliani</a> to evaluate systemic issues at CUNY by executive order.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After longterm service to CUNY's board of trustees, New York State Governor <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a> replaced Schmidt in June 2016, then-chair, with a new chair, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Thompson_(New_York_politician)" title="Bill Thompson (New York politician)">Bill Thompson</a>, after an interim report issued, in an ongoing state investigation, issued by the Office of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Inspector_General" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Inspector General">New York State Inspector General</a> identified a number of systemic problems, largely attributable to CUNY's lack of oversight which led to financial waste and abuse within the CUNY system.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Schmidt was born in New York, New York on March 20, 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, <a href="/wiki/Benno_C._Schmidt,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Benno C. Schmidt, Sr.">Benno C. Schmidt, Sr.</a>, was a longtime friend and associate of <a href="/wiki/John_Hay_Whitney" title="John Hay Whitney">John "Jock" Hay Whitney</a>. In 1946, Whitney and the elder Schmidt started what was to become the first <a href="/wiki/Venture_capital" title="Venture capital">venture capital</a> firm in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/J.H._Whitney_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="J.H. Whitney & Co.">J.H. Whitney & Co.</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother, Martha (Chastain) Schmidt, was a homemaker, who remarried and took the surname Orgain.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Schmidt Jr. attended <a href="/wiki/St._Bernard%27s_School" title="St. Bernard's School">St. Bernard's School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy" title="Phillips Exeter Academy">Phillips Exeter Academy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>. Upon completion of his undergraduate studies in history, in 1963, Schmidt attended <a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a>. Following graduation in 1966, he became a <a href="/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk">law clerk</a> for <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice of the United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Earl Warren</a>, and thereafter worked for two years in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Justice">U.S. Department of Justice</a>, before joining <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" title="Columbia Law School">Columbia Law School</a> as a faculty member. His expertise as a legal scholar included the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_U.S._Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution">First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution</a>, history of <a href="/wiki/Race_relations" title="Race relations">race relations</a> in American law, and history of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kauffman_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kauffman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Schmidt achieved <a href="/wiki/Academic_tenure" title="Academic tenure">tenure</a> at Columbia in 1973, at age 29, and was named the <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Fiske_Stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Harlan Fiske Stone">Harlan Fiske Stone</a> Professor of <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional Law">Constitutional Law</a> in 1982. Schmidt was appointed <a href="/wiki/Dean_(education)" title="Dean (education)">Dean</a> of the law school in 1984, where he served until 1986, before accepting the offer to be President of Yale University, succeeding <a href="/wiki/A._Bartlett_Giamatti" class="mw-redirect" title="A. Bartlett Giamatti">A. Bartlett Giamatti</a>, who resigned to become president of baseball's <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kauffman_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kauffman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Yale_University">Yale University</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Yale University"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Schmidt was the president of <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> from 1986 to 1992. In academics, he instituted several new and successful programs, but his attempt to reduce faculty stirred up controversy. He anticipated the need to repair the university's physical infrastructure, which had fallen into disrepair, but widespread renovation was not carried out until the arrival of Schmidt's successor <a href="/wiki/Rick_Levin" title="Rick Levin">Rick Levin</a>. Most impressively, Schmidt raised over a billion dollars for Yale,<sup id="cite_ref-YDN_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YDN-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a faster-growing endowment than at any other university.<sup id="cite_ref-kauffman_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kauffman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Answering faculty reports of poor writing abilities among incoming freshmen, Schmidt convened a committee to review the issues, and after reflecting upon committee's recommendations, he made significant changes to the writing programs, such as instituting writing tutors at each of the residential colleges, a program which remains today.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under Schmidt's leadership, Yale established the Ethics, Politics and Economics (EP&E) program,<sup id="cite_ref-YDN_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YDN-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was modeled on the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>'s PP&E program, and a number of interdisciplinary programs, including environmental sciences, molecular biology, and international studies.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schmidt questioned the validity of other academic programs, although his proposal to reduce the faculty by 11 percent was not well received.<sup id="cite_ref-YDN_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YDN-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Schmidt was criticized for maintaining his primary residence in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> during his tenure as president of Yale,<sup id="cite_ref-mansion_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mansion-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with his wife <a href="/wiki/Helen_Whitney" title="Helen Whitney">Helen Whitney</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary</a> <a href="/wiki/Filmmaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Filmmaker">filmmaker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schmidt collaborated with then-Mayor of <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a> <a href="/wiki/John_C._Daniels" title="John C. Daniels">John C. Daniels</a> to hammer out a land deal that netted the City of New Haven $2.3 million, in 1990, and millions more in subsequent years.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Edison_Schools">Edison Schools</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Edison Schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1992 to 1997, Schmidt served as the chief executive officer of <a href="/wiki/EdisonLearning" title="EdisonLearning">Edison Schools</a>, a for-profit venture, later renamed EdisonLearning, a for-profit <a href="/wiki/Corporation" title="Corporation">corporation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The organization operates <a href="/wiki/Public_school_(government_funded)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public school (government funded)">public schools</a> in several districts He was President of the concern from 1992 to 1997 and Chief Education Officer of it from 1998 to 1999. From 1997 to 2007, Schmidt served as Edison's Chairman and later a director on the board.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="City_University_of_New_York">City University of New York</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: City University of New York"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On May 6, 1998, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> Mayor <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</a> appointed Schmidt the chair of a special task force to evaluate longstanding systemic issues at <a href="/wiki/City_University_of_New_York" title="City University of New York">City University of New York</a>, along with committee members <a href="/wiki/Herman_Badillo" title="Herman Badillo">Herman Badillo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heather_Mac_Donald" title="Heather Mac Donald">Heather MacDonald</a>, a fellow at the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research" title="Manhattan Institute for Policy Research">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a>; former <a href="/wiki/New_York_State" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State">New York State</a> Senator <a href="/wiki/Manfred_Ohrenstein" title="Manfred Ohrenstein">Manfred Ohrenstein</a>, Jacqueline V. Brady, a vice president of <a href="/wiki/Nomura_Securities" title="Nomura Securities">Nomura Securities</a> International, Incorporated; Richard T. Roberts, Commissioner of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Housing_Preservation_and_Development" title="New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development">New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development</a>; and Richard Schwartz, president and CEO of <i>Opportunity America</i> and special assistant to Mayor Giuliani. A year later, on June 7, 1999, the task force report entitled "An Institution Adrift" characterized the "moribund conditions" of a public University system "caught in a spiral of decline".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schmidt and his colleagues called for a complete restructuring of the City University of New York system.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Specifically, Schmidt advised <a href="/wiki/CUNY" class="mw-redirect" title="CUNY">CUNY</a> to organize into a unified university system, rather than continue under a system of governance in which each of its 17-campuses runs itself as a separate <a href="/wiki/Fiefdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiefdom">fiefdom</a>. Similarly, in a section on <i>financial planning,</i> Schmidt advised the university overhaul the <i>passivity</i> of CUNY's central Executive Administration. Four years later, New York State Governor <a href="/wiki/George_E._Pataki" class="mw-redirect" title="George E. Pataki">George E. Pataki</a> appointed Benno C. Schmidt Jr. to the position of chairman of the <a href="/wiki/City_University_of_New_York" title="City University of New York">City University of New York</a> Board of Trustees.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, Schmidt was reappointed to the position of chair. Prior, Schmidt served CUNY's Board in the positions of Vice Chairperson, from 1999 to 2003. In 2006, Governor George Pataki reappointed Schmidt to the position of Chair for another seven-year term. In 2016, financial impropriety by the former <a href="/wiki/City_College_of_New_York" title="City College of New York">City College of New York</a>, and an investigation conducted by the New York State Office of the Inspector General, concluding the <a href="/wiki/City_University_of_New_York" title="City University of New York">City University of New York</a> financial system was "ripe for abuse" due to a lack of proper oversight of decentralized funds, resulting in "financial waste and abuse," prompting Governor <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a> to replace Schmidt with a new chairman, and most of the <a href="/wiki/CUNY" class="mw-redirect" title="CUNY">CUNY</a> Board of Trustees with a new bloc of politically prominent trustees.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_professional_and_civic_service">Other professional and civic service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other professional and civic service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Schmidt served as Director/Trustee of the <a href="/wiki/Ewing_Marion_Kauffman_Foundation" title="Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation">Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation</a>; chairman of board for the Council on Aid to Education - a not-for-profit providing colleges and universities assessment and strategic planning services; the <a href="/wiki/National_Humanities_Center" title="National Humanities Center">National Humanities Center</a> (NHC), and <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, as well as an advisory board member of the Happy Hearts Fund, a nonprofit focused on rapidly rebuilding schools in disaster-stricken areas.<sup id="cite_ref-kauffman_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kauffman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Schmidt delivered a talk at the Yale commencement ceremony, entitled "Governance for a New Era", or "The Schmidt Report", and subtitled "A Blueprint for Higher Education Trustees", in which the former University president harshly criticized passive governance over the nation's public and smaller private institutions, which serve the vast majority of American college students. Schmidt issued a challenge to higher education leadership to step up and take responsibility for doing more to increase academic standards and graduation rates.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_recognition">Professional recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Professional recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1989 he was appointed Honorary Member of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Australia" title="Order of Australia">Order of Australia</a> (AM), for his service to the arts and agricultural development in Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1991, Schmidt was awarded Honorary Officer status (AO). The inscription reads, "For service to the arts, agricultural development and Australian/American relations."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2010, Schmidt received the sixth annual <a href="/wiki/Philip_Merrill" title="Philip Merrill">Philip Merrill</a> Award of the <a href="/wiki/American_Council_of_Trustees_and_Alumni" title="American Council of Trustees and Alumni">American Council of Trustees and Alumni</a> (ACTA) for outstanding contributions to liberal arts education.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Schmidt made <a href="/wiki/Cameo_appearance" title="Cameo appearance">cameo appearances</a> in two <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> films, <i><a href="/wiki/Hannah_and_Her_Sisters" title="Hannah and Her Sisters">Hannah and Her Sisters</a></i> (1986) and <i><a href="/wiki/Husbands_and_Wives" title="Husbands and Wives">Husbands and Wives</a></i> (1992).<sup id="cite_ref-WaPoObit_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPoObit-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Schmidt was married four times, with his first three marriages ending in divorce.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had three children and two stepchildren. He was known as a folk musician.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schmidt died at home in Millbrook, New York, on July 9, 2023, at age 81.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WaPoObit_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPoObit-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_C._Schmidt_Jr.&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a 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