Harrison Jay Goldin (born February 23, 1936, The Bronx, New York) is a lawyer and former New York politician. He served as New York City Comptroller from 1974 to 1989. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1973 and ran in the 1989 Democratic Primary election for Mayor of New York.[1] During the Kennedy Administration, Goldin was an attorney in the United States Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights.
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After leaving public office in 1989, he opened Goldin Associates, a financial advisory and turnaround consulting firm. Notable cases have included Drexel Burnham Lambert, Rockefeller Center, Enron and Refco. He was a founding Chair (now Chair Emeritus) of the Council of Institutional Investors and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Goldin was an Adjunct Professor of Accounting at the Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo and New York Law Schools. He was also a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.
He graduated as Science Valedictorian from the Bronx High School of Science in 1953 and received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1957 (Phi Beta Kappa) and an LL.B. from Yale Law School, where he was articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Goldin was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School.
Just prior to his graduation, Goldin famously turned several top Wall Street jobs to work for Robert Kennedy in the US Department of Justice in the JFK administration.
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| Preceded by E. Ogden Bush |
New York State Senate, 34th District 1966 |
Succeeded by John E. Flynn |
| Preceded by Jerome Wilson |
New York State Senate, 30th District 1967–1972 |
Succeeded by Robert Garcia |
| Preceded by Joseph Galiber |
New York State Senate, 31st District 1973 |
Succeeded by Israel Ruiz |
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| Preceded by Abraham Beame |
New York City Comptroller 1974 – 1989 |
Succeeded by Elizabeth Holtzman |
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| Preceded by Arthur Levitt, Sr. |
Democratic Nominee for New York State Comptroller 1978 |
Succeeded by Raymond F. Gallagher |
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