Sam A. Lewisohn

Samuel Adolph Lewisohn (March 21, 1884 – March 13, 1951) was an American lawyer, financier, philanthropist, art collector, and non-fiction author. He is also known as first president of the American Management Association.

Biography Youth, education and early career Lewisohn was born in New York City in 1884, the son of Adolph Lewisohn and Emma Cahn Lewisohn. After attending the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, he graduated from Princeton University in 1904 and from Columbia Law School in 1907. In 1923 he was one of the founders of the American Management Association, and served as its first president from 1924 to 1927.

Lewisohn became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1927; Director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, where he served as director until his death; member of the New York State Commission of Correction in 1928, and many other positions in industry, government, and culture. Upon his death, a number of important modern art works were donated to the Met, including works by Rousseau, Seurat, Gauguin, Renoir, Cezanne, Sterne, and Van Gogh. Lewisohn's sister Adele Lewisohn Lehman married Arthur Lehman (1873–1936), of the Lehman family.

In 1918, Lewisohn married Margaret Valentine Seligman (1895–1954), a daughter of Joseph Seligman and a "nationally known leader in education."

Selected publications Lewisohn, Sam Adolph, et al. Can Business Prevent Unemployment. Knopf, 1925. Lewisohn, Sam Adolph. The new leadership in industry. New York: EP Dutton, 1926. Scott Nearing, Sam Adolph Lewisohn, Malcolm Churchill Rorty, and Morris Hillquit. The Future of Capitalism and Socialism in America. New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1927. Lewisohn, Sam Adolph. Personalities Past and Present. 1939. Lewisohn, Sam Adolph. Human leadership in industry: the challenge of tomorrow. New York and London, 1945. Lewisohn, Sam Adolph. Painters and personality: a collector's view of modern art. Harper, 1948.

Articles, a selection Lewisohn, Sam A. "The living wage and the national income." Political Science Quarterly 38.2 (1923): 219-226. Lewisohn, Sam A. "New aspects of unemployment insurance." Political Science Quarterly 50.1 (1935): 1-14. Lewisohn, Sam A. "Mexican Murals and Diego Rivera." Parnassus 7.7 (1935): 11-12. Lewisohn, Sam A. "Psychology in economics." Political Science Quarterly 53.2 (1938): 233-238.