Coming to the post of Lieutenant Governor in 1928 without the experience of any political office, and known as a banker and philanthropist Lieutenant Governor Lehman quickly made a name for himself as a progressive and humane leader.
In the re-election campaign, he was named to his post for a second time by the large plurality of 607,207, constituting one of the most popular demonstrations in history of New York gubernatorial voting.
Despite his absorption in his duties which on several occasions have called upon him to serve as the Acting Governor of the State of New York, Lieutenant Governor Lehman has not renounced his affiliations with local, national and international Jewish endeavors.
He is a vice president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; vice president of the Palestine Economic Corporation, a non-Zionist member of the Council of the Jewish Agency; he is associated with the American Ort, the Jewish Colonization Association, the American Jewish Joint Foundation in Europe, the Palestine Loan Bank, the Russian Agrojoint Committee, Russian Agricultural Fund and the Baron de Hirsh Fund.
Other organizations in which he plays a role are the National Labor Committee, the Cardiac Cocational Committee, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, the Association for the Advancement of the Colored People; the Henry Street Settlement, the Hebrew Sheltering and Guardian Society, the Bureau of Social Research, the New York Foundation, Young Judaea, of which he is honorary president.
Lieutenant Governor Lehman is fiftyfour years old and a native of New York City.
In 1930, he received the Zeta Beta Thau medal as the Jew who has done most for Jewry and Judaism.
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