After helping his family’s Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.
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Mar 13, 2026
Lewis E. Lehrman, Store Chain Heir Who Ran for N.Y. Governor, Dies at 87
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By Joseph Berger
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