Seymour P. Lachman
Dr. Seymour P. Lachman served as the president of the New York City Board of Education and University Dean of the City University of New York before being elected to the New York State Senate, where he served five terms. He is the author of Mr. New York: Lew Rudin and His Love for the CityThe Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975 and Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse (The New Press); and a co-author (with Barry Kosmin) of One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society. He is the founder and dean of the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College, Staten Island, where he is also a Distinguished University Professor of Government.
