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Lewis Lehrman | |
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| Born | August 15, 1938 (age 86) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) Harvard University (MA) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Website | lewiselehrman.com |
Lewis E. "Lew" Lehrman (born August 15, 1938) is an American investment banker, businessman, politician, economist, and historian who supports the ongoing study of American history based on original source documents. He was presented the National Humanities Medal[1] at the White House in 2005 for his contributions to American history, the study of President Abraham Lincoln, and monetary policy. In 1982, Lehrman ran for Governor of New York against Democratic candidate Mario Cuomo, ultimately losing the election by two percentage points.
Lehrman was a member of the advisory committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Lincoln Forum and authored Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (2008),[2] Lincoln "by littles (2013), Churchill, Roosevelt & Company (2017), and Lincoln & Churchill: Statesmen at War (2018). His works on monetary policy include True Gold Standard, Newly Revised and Enlarged, Second Edition[3] (2012), Money, Gold, and History (2013), and (as co-author) Money and the Coming World Order (1976) and The Case for Gold (1982).
Lehrman writes for the Lincoln Institute[4] which has created websites on the 16th president. He is a senior partner at L. E. Lehrman & Co.,[5] an investment firm he established in 1981. He is also the chairman of the Lehrman Institute, a public policy research and grant making foundation founded in 1972.
On November 10, 2005, Lehrman and Richard Gilder were awarded the National Humanities Medal in an Oval Office ceremony[6] by U.S. president George W. Bush. Lehrman is a convert to Catholicism.[7]
- ^ "National Medal of Arts Recipients and National Humanities Medal Recipients". Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. 2005-11-10. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ Lehrman, Lewis. "Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point".
- ^ Lehrman, Lewis. "The True Gold Standard". The True Gold Standard, Newly Revised and Enlarged, Second Edition. Archived from the original on 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
- ^ "The Lincoln Institute". Archived from the original on 2002-03-27. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- ^ "Lewis E. Lehrman – Biography".
- ^ "Awards & Honors: 2005 National Humanities Medalist".
- ^ Oppenheimer, Mark (2015-06-12). "An Opus Dei Priest With a Magnetic Touch". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-10-12.