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. His father is of Jewish background. After his graduation in 1907, Lewisohn started working for the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. In 1910 he joined his father's law firm Adolph Lewisohn & Sons, where he kept serving as lawyer. In World War I he served as District Superintendent at the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in 1918-19.