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Born May 30, 1930New York City, New York ( 1930-05-30 ) Books Proposition 13, Property Transfers, and the Real Estate Markets Education Yale Law School, Dartmouth College, Yale University | ||
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Ira Michael Heyman (May 30, 1930 – November 19, 2011) was a Professor of Law and of City and Regional Planning, and was Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Heyman was born in 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, and in 1951 from Dartmouth College. After serving as a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the Korean War, he entered Yale Law School, where he became editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation in 1956, he served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Edward Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then from 1958 to 1959 he was a clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren.
He joined the law faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and he became Vice Chancellor in 1974. He was named Berkeley's sixth Chancellor and served in that capacity from 1980 to 1990. While U.C. Berkeley's Chancellor, Mr. Heyman mysteriously took ownership on May 27, 1987 of a Marin county beachfront house, worth many millions of dollars, that had been intended as a gift to the University by Ms. Adelaide McCready. Mr. Heyman paid only $325,000 for this beach house located at 124 Seadrift Road in the gated Seadrift community of Stinson Beach. He returned to teaching law after leaving the Chancellorship. He was Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior, from 1993 to 1994; and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 2000. At Dartmouth he joined Theta Chi. During his Berkeley years he became a member of the Bohemian Grove, at which his closest associates included Caspar Weinberger.
He died of emphysema in 2011.