Benjamin Buttenwieser

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Benjamin Joseph Buttenwieser (1900 – 1992) was an American banker, philanthropist and civil leader in New York.

Buttenwieser graduated Columbia College in 1919 and soon became a Limited Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and director of Revlon; Benrus Watch; Tischman Realty and others. Buttenwieser married Helen Lehman Buttenwieser in 1929. His wife was an attorney for Alger Hiss. Their activism landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.

The Buttenwieser Professorship at Columbia University was established in 1958 with a gift to the University from Buttenweiser, a longtime University Trustee and clerk of the Trustees, in honor of his father, Joseph. He was also a trustee of Lenox Hill Hospital and the New York Philharmonic. He was also president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.

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• Trimel, Suzanne (September 9, 1996). Social Scientist Charles Tilly Joins Columbia Faculty.
• The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 1940, volume 2, p. 610.
• English, Bella (July 29, 1999). Family Man: Arts patron also champions a tradition of social justice and philanthropy. Boston Globe