William Lehman
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- For the Pennsylvania congressman, see William Eckart Lehman
William Lehman (October 5, 1913 - March 16, 2005) was a United States Representative from Florida.
Born in Selma, Alabama, he graduated from Dallas Academy and Selma High School, 1930. He received a B.S. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1934 and attended Oxford University in 1965.
He was an auto dealer and a teacher at Miami Norland Junior High School in Miami, Florida in 1963-1964, and was an instructor at Miami Dade Junior College in 1965-1966.
He was a member of the Dade County school board from 1966 to 1972, and was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1993. He was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992.
William Lehman Elementary School in Miami, Florida is named after him.
He died in 2005 in Miami Beach, aged 91.
