Bookbinder, Hyman H. (Hyman Harry), 1916-2011

Hyman Harry Bookbinder (b. March 9, 1916, Brooklyn, New York-d. July 21, 2011, Bethesda, Maryland), was a 1937 graduate of the City College of New York and served in the Navy during World War II. He spent his early Washington career as a lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, and as assistant director in the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and poverty adviser to then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He was a longtime lobbyist for Jewish causes, and served as the American Jewish Committee’s Washington representative for nineteen years. He also worked to honor Holocaust victims and had a key role in the planning of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.