Editing Abraham Beame (section)

===Career before politics===
While in college, Beame co-founded an accounting firm, Beame & Greidinger.<ref name=baruch /> He was an accounting teacher at [[Richmond Hill High School (Queens, New York)|Richmond Hill High School]] in [[Queens]] from 1929 to 1946<ref name=rhill /> and also taught accounting and commercial law at [[Rutgers University]] from 1944 to 1945.

From 1952 to 1961, Beame served as New York City's director of the budget, having also served as assistant director from 1946 to 1952.<ref name=baruch /> In this capacity, he "negotiated all city labor contracts without a strike and kept books on city spending and borrowing; he also set up management programs that saved the city $40 million."<ref name=NYTobit />