Scheuer, James H. (James Haas), 1920-2005

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li> 11/06/1990 NY District 8 Won 72.26% (+44.53%)</li>
<li> 11/08/1988 NY District 8 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li> 11/04/1986 NY District 8 Won 90.19% (+80.38%)</li>
<li> 11/06/1984 NY District 8 Won 62.77% (+25.54%)</li>
<li> 11/02/1982 NY District 8 Won 89.53% (+79.06%)</li>
<li> 11/04/1980 NY District 11 Won 74.12% (+48.23%)</li>
<li> 11/07/1978 NY District 11 Won 78.45% (+56.90%)</li>
<li> 11/02/1976 NY District 11 Won 74.06% (+57.28%)</li>
<li> 09/14/1976 NY District 11 - D Primary Won 71.47% (+42.94%)</li>
<li> 11/05/1974 NY District 11 Won 72.25% (+58.01%)</li>
<li> 09/10/1974 NY District 11 - D Primary Won 53.43% (+6.85%)</li>
<li> 06/20/1972 NY District 22 - D Primary Lost 45.11% (-9.78%)</li>
<li> 11/03/1970 NY District 22 Won 71.59% (+43.17%)</li>
<li> 06/22/1970 NY District 22 - D Primary Won 56.86% (+13.71%)</li>
<li> 06/17/1969 NYC Mayor - D Primary Lost 5.06% (-27.79%)</li>
<li> 11/05/1968 NY District 21 Won 82.61% (+69.46%)</li>
<li> 06/18/1968 NY District 21 - D Primary Won 67.27% (+34.54%)</li>
<li> 11/08/1966 NY District 21 Won 83.58% (+67.15%)</li>
<li> 11/03/1964 NY District 21 Won 84.31% (+70.20%)</li>
<li> 06/02/1964 NY District 21 - D Primary Won 52.95% (+5.89%)</li>
<li> 09/06/1962 NY District 21 - D Primary Lost 43.39% (-6.70%)</li>
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<p>James Haas "Jim" Scheuer (February 6, 1920 – August 30, 2005) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was also affiliated with the Liberal Party of New York.</p>

<p>Scheuer was born and raised in New York City, where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1942, a master's degree from Harvard Business School in 1943, and a law degree from Columbia University Law School in 1948.</p>

<p>His brothers were Richard J. Scheuer, a scholar and philanthropist, Walter Scheuer, an investor and documentary-maker, and Steven H. Scheuer, a television and film critic. His sister is Amy Scheuer Cohen of Larchmont, NY. He was married in 1948 to interior designer Emily Malino (1925–2007) and had four children. Scheuer contracted polio while on his honeymoon, and recuperated for a year at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Warm Springs facility in Georgia. He walked with a cane for the rest of his life.</p>

SCHEUER, James Haas, a Representative from New York; born in New York, New York, February 6, 1920; graduated from the Fieldston School, Riverdale, N.Y., 1938; A.B., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., 1942; L.L.B., Columbia University Law School, New York, N.Y., 1948; I.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, Mass., 1945; lawyer, private practice; United States Army, 1943-1945; staff, Foreign Economic Administration, 1945-1946; staff, Office of Price Stabilization, 1951-1957; writer; lecturer; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; elected as a Democrat-Liberal to the Eighty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; served as president, National Alliance for Safer Cities, 1972-1973; president, National Housing Conference, 1972-1974; elected as a Democrat-Liberal to the Ninety-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; chair, Select Committee on Population (Ninety-fifth Congress); United States Director, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1996; died on August 30, 2005, in Washington, D.C.

Burial
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA