Thomas E. Dewey Jr.
Thomas Edmund Dewey Jr. (October 2, 1932 - December 6, 2021) was a New York businessman and the elder son of the former governor of New York and two-time Republican presidential nominee, Thomas E. Dewey. Career biography. Dewey earned a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He was a member of Dewey, Devlin, Metz & King LLC, which he helped to co-found in 1994. Prior to that, he was a member of McFarland Dewey & Co., a New York investment banking firm specializing in advisory and agency services for corporate and  government clients. He joined the investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. after graduation in 1958 and was a member of the firm's executive committee when he retired to form his own firm in 1975. From then until 1989, he was president of Thomas E. Dewey Jr. & Co., Inc., a financial advisory services firm. Dewey was also on the Board of Trustees at The Scripps Research Institute. Dewey served Lenox Hill Hospital as an active Trustee beginning in 1959 and chairman Emeritus from 1993 until his death. He also served as Vice Chairman of the New York City Housing  Development Corporation from 1972 to 1989. Family life and personal. In 1959, Dewey was married to the former Ann Reynolds Lawler and had three children: Thomas Edmund Lawler Dewey, a litigator with a law firm, Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky LLP; Elizabeth Dewey Grattan, a television and content producer on such shows as Full Frontal Fashion; and George Dewey, formerly of McCann Erickson and 20th Century Fox, now President of Ryan Reynolds's Maximum Effort. He has three grandchildren, Frances, Thomas and Charles.