30 Facts About Lewis Lehrman

Lewis E "Lew" Lehrman was born on 15 August 1938 and is an American investment banker, businessman, politician, economist, and historian who advocates for studying American history using original source documents.

Lewis Lehrman received the National Humanities Medal in 2005 for his work in American history, Abraham Lincoln, and monetary policy.

In 1982, Lehrman ran for Governor of New York against Democratic candidate Mario Cuomo, losing the election by two percentage points.

Lewis Lehrman writes for the Lincoln Institute which has created websites on Abraham Lincoln.

Lewis Lehrman is the chairman of the Lehrman Institute, a public policy research and grant making foundation founded in 1972.

Lewis Lehrman was born on 15 August 1938, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Rose and Benjamin Sachs Lewis Lehrman, who was chairman of the Rite-Aid Corporation.

Lewis Lehrman attended The Hill School, a boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Lewis Lehrman is the former president of Rite Aid Corporation, a writer, businessman, and an economic historian.

On holidays as a teenager, Lewis Lehrman worked part-time at the firm.

Lewis Lehrman later worked summers and holidays at the company while continuing his education at Yale and Harvard before enlisting in the Army Reserves.

At the time, with 32 percent of the company's stock, Lewis Lehrman was the company's president and largest stockholder.

Alex Grass, Lewis Lehrman's brother-in-law brought into the business by Lewis Lehrman's father, was eventually named chief executive.

Lewis Lehrman stepped down as Rite Aid president in 1977 and as chairman of the firm's executive committee in 1981, eventually severing all ties with the company.

Lewis Lehrman "took a sleepy little company and breathed life into it," said one company director.

Lewis Lehrman was a managing director of Morgan Stanley in the late 1980s.

Lewis Lehrman was an investor in George W Bush's Arbusto Energy.

Lewis Lehrman was the president of Rite Aid until 1977 and resigned from all positions in 1981 to run for governor of New York the following year.

Lewis Lehrman planned to create both the same way he had created the Rite-Aid network, by driving to cities and towns and paying attention to Main Street.

Lewis Lehrman himself has written and lectured about Abraham Lincoln's legacy in the centrality of American history.

In 1972, Lewis Lehrman founded the Lewis Lehrman Institute, a public policy think tank in New York City which focused on the study of economic and foreign policy from a historical perspective.

Lewis Lehrman founded the Lincoln Institute to provide support and assistance to scholars and groups involved in the study of the life of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.

In 2013, Lewis Lehrman published Lincoln "by littles," a collection of his essays on Lincoln and the Civil War.

Lewis Lehrman was a member of the board of directors of the Project for the New American Century for one year.

Lewis Lehrman was an early trustee of the Manhattan Institute as well as being a trustee of the Pierpont Morgan Library.

At the time, Lewis Lehrman was considered a possible future Republican presidential candidate.

Unlike Sprinkel, Lewis Lehrman was critical of the floating exchange rate policies of Milton Friedman, the leading academic monetarist.

Lewis Lehrman wrote several memos for President-elect Reagan on monetary and fiscal policy, including "The Struggle for Financial Order at the Onset of the Reagan Presidency", and one co-authored by Congressmen David Stockman and Jack Kemp, "Avoiding a GOP Economic Dunkirk".

Additionally, Lewis Lehrman contributed to Money and the Coming World Order, originally published by the New York University Press and republished by The Lewis Lehrman Institute in 2012, and wrote The True Gold Standard.

In promoting a return to the Gold Standard, Lewis Lehrman was allied to James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, with whom he testified before the United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology in March 2011 and September 2012.

Lewis Lehrman repeatedly argued that paper currency was injurious to working Americans.