Thomas Edmund Dewey Jr. (October 2, 1932 – December 6, 2021) was a New York businessman and the elder son of the former governor of New York and two-time Republican presidential nominee,
Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician who served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican candidate for president in 1944 and 1948: although ...
.
Career biography
Dewey earned a
BA from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
and an
MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
from the
Harvard Business School. He was a member of Dewey, Devlin, Metz & King LLC, which he helped to co-found in 1994. Prior to that, he was a member of McFarland Dewey & Co., a New York investment banking firm specializing in advisory and agency services for corporate and government clients. He joined the investment banking firm of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. after graduation in 1958 and was a member of the firm's executive committee when he retired to form his own firm in 1975. From then until 1989, he was president of Thomas E. Dewey Jr. & Co., Inc., a financial advisory services firm. Dewey was also on the Board of Trustees at
The Scripps Research Institute. Dewey served
Lenox Hill Hospital
Lenox Hill Hospital (LHH) is a nationally ranked 450-bed non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, servicing the tri-state area. LHH is one of the region's many unive ...
as an active Trustee beginning in 1959 and chairman Emeritus from 1993 until his death. He also served as Vice Chairman of the New York City Housing Development Corporation from 1972 to 1989. He served in the
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare, land military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight Uniformed services of the United States, U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army o ...
Family life and personal
In 1959, Dewey was married to the former Ann Reynolds Lawler and had three children:
References
External links
Thomas Dewey Jr's bio profile at People.Forbes.com*
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1932 births
2021 deaths
American bankers
Businesspeople from New York City
Military personnel from New York City
Princeton University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Scripps Research