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

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and an

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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

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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

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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
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dewey, Thomas E. Jr. 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