Mortimer L. Schiff

Mortimer Loeb Schiff
Schiff in 1900
5th President of the Boy Scouts of America
In office May 1931 – June 4, 1931
Preceded by	Walter W. Head
Succeeded by	Walter W. Head
Personal details
Occupation	polictian, banker

Mortimer Loeb Schiff (June 5, 1877 – June 4, 1931), sometimes Mortimer Leo Schiff, was an American banker and notable early Boy Scouts of America (BSA) leader. His son John Mortimer Schiff was also involved with the BSA. He was also the father of Dorothy Schiff, who was the owner and publisher of the New York Post from 1939 to 1976.

Mortimer Leo Schiff was born on June 5, 1877, the only son of the German Jewish American banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff and his wife Therese (née Loeb). He entered Amherst College in the class of 1896, possibly the first Jewish student ever to attend there, though he did not graduate. While he worked as a partner in the financial firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1900 until his death in 1931, he also devoted much of his time to the development of scouting in America. He was a member of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the Nassau County (now Theodore Roosevelt) Council Executive Board. After a long tenure as vice-president of the BSA beginning in 1910, during which he also appeared on the cover of Time magazine on February 14, 1927, he was elected president of the organization in 1931. However, his untimely death came only one month later on June 4, 1931. He had also been serving as the BSA's International Commissioner for several years.

The property for the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was subsequently purchased by his mother, named in his honor, and donated to the BSA for their national training center.

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