Lewis E. Lehrman

Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania August 15, 1938, Lewis E. Lehrman received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University in 1960, after which he won a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship as an instructor of history on the Yale faculty. Subsequently, he received his master's degree as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow from Harvard University.

After serving in the United States Army, Lehrman was President of Rite Aid for nine years (1968-1977). He resigned as President in 1977 to dedicate his time to public policy.

In January 1982, Lehrman ran for Governor of New York. Nominated by both the Conservative and Republican parties of New York, Lehrman launched a campaign to rebuild New York. Following a narrow loss to Mario Cuomo, President Reagan in August of 1983 asked Lehrman to become Chairman of Citizens for America.

He was the annual honoree in 1983 of the Archdiocese of New York for his early work in developing the Inner City Scholarship Fund. He has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Morgan Library, the Manhattan Institute and the Heritage Foundation. He is a former Chairman of the Committee on Humanities of the Yale University Council

In April of 1987, Lehrman joined Morgan Stanley & Company, investment bankers, as a Senior Advisor and a Director of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. In 1988, he became a Managing Director of the firm and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. Subsequently, he formed Ten Squared Investment Fund. He is today Chairman of L.E. Lehrman & Co., a private investment firm.

Lehrman has written books and articles on American history, national security and economic and monetary policy. He has co-authored the book Money and the Coming World Order. He has also written on economic, foreign policy and national security issues in publications such as Harper's, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Policy Review.

Lehrman also teaches American history from time to time. He has published several articles on Abraham Lincoln and has taught a seminar on Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg College. He is the managing partner of the Gilder Lehrman Collection, the largest privately owned collection of American historical documents; co-founder of the Lincoln Prize, given annually to the best scholarly work published on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; and a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University for the Study of Abolition and Slavery.

Lewis and Louise Lehrman were married in 1966; they have five children.