Peter B. Lewis

American businessman who was the chairman of Progressive Insurance Company.

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Progressive Corporation

American insurance company, the third largest insurance carrier and the No. 1 commercial auto insurer in the United States.

In 1965, Peter B. Lewis, son of Joseph Lewis, and his mother borrowed $2.5 million, pledging their majority stake as collateral, and completed a leveraged buyout of Progressive.

Marijuana Policy Project

Largest organization working solely on marijuana policy reform in the United States in terms of its budget, number of members, and staff.

The organization and its various ballot initiatives has largely been funded by the late billionaire Peter B. Lewis, and now by his family.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

Albert Gleizes, 1915, Composition for "Jazz", oil on cardboard, 73 × 73 cm

Staircase at the Vatican Museums designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932

Museum under construction in photo taken on Nov 12, 1957

An interior view of the museum on a busy day

The skylight in the center of the museum

Students sketching at the entrance to the Sackler Center

1966 2 Cent U.S. postage stamp honoring Wright

Paul Cézanne, c.1899, Homme aux bras croisés (Man With Crossed Arms), oil on canvas, 92 x 72.7 cm

Georges Braque, 1909, Violin and Palette (Violon et palette, Dans l'atelier), oil on canvas, 91.7 x 42.8 cm

Wassily Kandinsky, 1910, Landscape with Factory Chimney, oil on canvas, 66.2 x 82 cm

Franz Marc, 1911, The Yellow Cow, oil on canvas, 140.5 x 189.2 cm

Juan Gris, 1911, Maisons à Paris (Houses in Paris), 1911, oil on canvas, 52.4 x 34.2 cm

Fernand Léger, 1911–12, Les Fumeurs (The Smokers), oil on canvas, 129.2 x 96.5 cm

Jean Metzinger, 1912, Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan), oil on canvas, 90.7 x 64.2 cm

Fernand Léger, 1912–13, Nude Model in the Studio (Le modèle nu dans l'atelier), oil on burlap, 128.6 x 95.9 cm

Alexander Archipenko, 1913, Pierrot-carrousel, painted plaster, 61 × 48.6 × 34 cm

Marc Chagall, 1913, Paris par la fenêtre (Paris Through the Window), oil on canvas, 136 x 141.9 cm

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1914 (cast c.1930), Le cheval (The Horse), bronze, 43.6 × 41 cm

Albert Gleizes, 1914–15, Portrait of an Army Doctor (Portrait d'un médecin militaire), oil on canvas, 119.8 x 95.1 cm

Albert Gleizes, 1915, Brooklyn Bridge (Pont de Brooklyn), oil and gouache on canvas, 102 x 102 cm cm

Juan Gris, 1917, Compotier et nappe à carreaux (Fruit Dish on a Checkered Tablecloth), oil on wood panel, 80.6 x 53.9 cm

Amedeo Modigliani, 1917, Nude (Nu), oil on canvas, 73 × 116.7 cm

Theo van Doesburg, 1918, Composition XI, oil on canvas, 57 x 101 cm

Paul Klee, 1922, Red Balloon (Roter Ballon) oil on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board, 31.7 × 31.1 cm

In 2005, Krens won a dispute with billionaire philanthropist Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the foundation's Board of Directors and the largest contributor to the foundation in its history.

Weatherhead School of Management

Private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio.

The main entrance of the Peter B. Lewis Building

It is named after Cleveland philanthropist Peter B. Lewis, who donated $36.9 million towards its construction.

Cleveland Heights High School

Senior high school of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District, located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States.

Peter B. Lewis (1951), CEO of Progressive Insurance

2010 California Proposition 19

Ballot initiative on the November 2, 2010 statewide ballot.

Peter B. Lewis, former CEO of Progressive Insurance

Mayfield Cemetery

Historic Jewish cemetery located at 2749 Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Grave of Senator Howard Metzenbaum at Mayfield Cemetery.

Peter B. Lewis (1933–2013), billionaire chairman of Progressive Insurance

2013 in the United States

Events in the year 2013 in the United States.

January 16: The grounded Japan Airlines 787 at Boston Logan Airport

January 20: Barack Obama, the President of the United States, begins his second term.

February 3: Emergency lights provided some illumination during the Super Bowl XLVII power outage.

February 7 – February 9: February 2013 nor'easter – The snowfall in Billerica, Massachusetts.

February 28: Many wonder if Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's signature will continue unaltered on United States currency.

March 18: Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee: stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

May 10: One World Trade Center tops out at 1,776 ft.

June 5: Rescue operations on the afternoon of the collapse.

Peter B. Lewis, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)

2013 in art

The year 2013 in art involves some significant events.

November 23 – Peter B. Lewis, 80, American businessman and arts patron (the Guggenheim Museum and the Cleveland museum of art)

Schmidt Ocean Institute

501(c)(3) non-profit operating foundation established in March 2009 by Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt.

The Lone Ranger, a 255-foot former ocean tug, was donated to the Institute by Peter B. Lewis in 2009 and was operated by the Institute to support research in Bermuda and the Bahamas.