Abraham "Abe" Aronovitz (1899 – 11 July 1960) was a Jewish American lawyer and Mayor of Miami.

Aronovitz was one of six sons of Romania

Romania

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n immigrants, David and Kate Aronovitz. He was raised in Key West

Key West

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, Florida and graduated from Palm Beach High School

Palm Beach Lakes Community High School

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. He also graduated from Stetson University

Stetson University

Stetson University is a private university with four colleges and schools located across the I-4 corridor in Central Florida. The primary undergraduate campus is located in DeLand, Florida, USA. In the 2012 U.S...

. He was the uncle of Sidney Aronovitz (1920–1988), the US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida (1976–1988).

In the 1920s, he ran and lost the election for the Jacksonville city commission. He then moved to Miami and in 1926 was appointed acting State Attorney. In 1927, he ran and lost the election for the City Commission of the City of Miami. He served as Miami city attorney in the 1930s. He was elected mayor of Miami from 1953 through 1955 and then served as commissioner until he resigned due to health problems in 1958. He was staying at Havana Hilton Hotel in Havana

Havana

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, Cuba with his family when the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was the United States-aligned Cuban President, dictator and military leader who served as the leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1944 and from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution....

fell on 1 January 1959.