Blair W. Effron’s fellow financiers will have a chance to follow the etiquette advice from the woman who once lived in his New York apartment when he hosts President Barack Obama at a fundraiser there May 14.

The co-founder of investment bank Centerview Partners LLC is having Obama over to raise money for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said two donors who weren’t authorized to discuss the event. His East 79th Street co-op, which according to a 2012 real estate listing has two floors, four bedrooms, 71 windows and a “billiard room with wet bar,” was assembled from units including the apartment that manners authority Emily Post chose after helping to plan the building.

Guests can attend an hour-long reception followed by “a special dinner” with the president for $20,000 each, with a maximum $32,400 contribution, according to an invitation. The fundraiser, whose proceeds will support Democrats fighting to protect their Senate majority, takes place weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court removed limits on the total amount donors can give federal candidates and parties.

Wall Street executives who have likened Obama to villains from ancient Rome or wartime Germany haven’t followed the rules Post published in “Etiquette,” a 1922 guide that preaches civility and compares millionaires who push their opinions to elephants running amok. Rules for introducing a president appear by the book’s second chapter, with additional pointers later for announcing the commander in chief at a formal dinner.

“His title needs no qualifying appendage,” Post wrote.

Big Deals

Effron, 51, has become a key U.S. banker after working on television, alcohol and ketchup deals. His firm advised Time Warner Cable Inc. on a $45.2 billion bid from Comcast Corp. and bourbon maker Beam Inc. on its sale to Suntory Holdings Ltd. this year, and H.J. Heinz Co. on its $23.3 billion sale in June.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is a counselor at New York-based Centerview. His son, former private-equity executive Jamie Rubin, is a co-host of the May 14 dinner. He was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo last year to help direct New York’s storm-recovery effort.

Donors from the securities and investment industry were among Obama’s top supporters in 2008, then set donation records trying to replace him with Mitt Romney four years later, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. For 2014 elections, about one-third of the $55 million raised from the industry went to Democrats, CRP data updated March 10 show.

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