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ID: 500449195
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500449195

 

Record Type: Person
Amsterdam, Jack (American businessman and philanthropist, died 1998)

Note: A manufacturer of electrical equipment and a philanthropist, Amsterdam was the board chairman of Leviton Manufacturing, based in Little Neck, N.Y., which he helped build into a leading maker of wiring devices. He began his career with the company in 1933 and became chairman in 1965 after the death of his father-in-law, the company's founder, Isidor Leviton.

Names:
Amsterdam, Jack (preferred,U,index)
Jack Amsterdam (U,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
businessman (preferred)
philanthropist
owner

Gender: male

Events:
active:   Ossining (Westchester county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
spouse of ....  Amsterdam, Jack, Mrs.  
................  (American owner, fl. 1958) [500448847]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Amsterdam, Jack (I,U)

Biographies:
(American businessman and philanthropist, died 1998) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American owner, fl. 1962) ..... [PROV]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Amsterdam, Jack ........ [PROV Preferred]
................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Jack Amsterdam ........ [PROV, VP]
..............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-) obit. JAN. 28, 1998
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