William M. Lehman (October 5, 1913 – March 16, 2005) was an American politician. He served in the

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, representing

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from 1973 until 1993.

Early life

Born in

Selma, Alabama Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks of the Alabama River, the city has a population of 17,971 as of the 2020 census. About ...

, Lehman graduated from Dallas Academy and Selma High School in 1930. He received a B.S. from the

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in 1934 and attended

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in 1965. He was an auto dealer and a teacher at Miami Norland Junior High School in

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, in 1963–1964, while also working as an instructor at

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in 1965–1966.

Political career

He was a member of the

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from 1966 to 1972, and was elected as a

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to the Ninety-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1993. He was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992. Segments of the area the seat occupied were folded into a district currently served by

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. Serving as chair of the Miami-Dade county transportation subcommittee, he helped create the

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and

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systems. Other work includes the assisted creation of the trauma care center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Death

He died in 2005 in

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, aged 91. William Lehman Elementary School in Miami, Florida, and the William Lehman Causeway are named after him.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lehman, William 1913 births 2005 deaths Politicians from Selma, Alabama University of Alabama alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Florida Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives 20th-century American politicians School board members in Florida 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews

Early life

Political career

Death

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