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John Hale Levi | |
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| Miami Beach City Commissioner | |
| 13th Mayor of Miami Beach | |
| In office 1944–1945 | |
| Preceded by | Mitchell Wolfson |
| Succeeded by | Herbert A. Frink |
| 10th Mayor of Miami Beach | |
| In office 1937–1941 | |
| Preceded by | Louis F Snedigar |
| Succeeded by | Val C. Cleary |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 16,1875 |
| Died | January 26,1948 (aged 72) Miami,Florida,US |
| Profession | Engineer |
John Hale Levi (1875-1948) was an engineer and politician who served as the City of Miami Beach's 10th and 13th mayor.
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Levi was revered for his contributions to the creation of the island and city of Miami Beach. [1]
Born in West Virginia,he studied at the Pratt Institue in New York. [2]
Hale became an engineer with the Consolidated Ship Company. On a trip through South Florida to meet entrepreneur,Carl Fisher in 1912,he ended up in Biscayne Bay,off the coast of Miami. Levi proposed the idea of dredging the bay bottom to make a usable island from the mangrove that was Miami Beach at the time.
He and Fisher along with the Lummus brothers and John S Collins built the infrastructure that started the land boom on Miami Beach.
