Seymour P. Lachman[1] (December 12, 1933 – January 2, 2025) was an American academic, political historian, book author, and politician from New York.
Lachman was born in the Bronx on December 12, 1933, to a Jewish family who immigrated from Poland.
[5] He resigned from the board to spend more time teaching at City University of New York.
[6] Lachman was a Professor of History and Political Science at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York beginning in 1963, serving as Dean of the Mid-Brooklyn campus beginning in fall 1965.
In 2008, upon its founding, he became the Director of the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College.