Albert Conway (April 3, 1889, in Brooklyn,

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– May 18, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from

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. He was Chief Judge of the

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from 1955 to 1959.

Life

He was the son of Joseph P. Conway and Jane Lucille (Flanagan) Conway. He graduated from

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in 1911. In 1917, he married Irene Hewitt (d. 1929). Afterwards he married Alice O'Neil (d. 1978). He was an alternate delegate to the

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. In

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, he ran for New York State Attorney General but was defeated by Republican Hamilton Ward, Jr. Early in 1929, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Conway as New York State Superintendent of Insurance. In June 1930, he was appointed County Judge of Kings County to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. Bernard Vause. He was a justice of the

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from 1931 to 1939, on the Appellate Division from 1937 on. In 1939, he conducted an extraordinary term of the Supreme Court at Buffalo, New York, presiding over a special grand jury investigation of Buffalo city affairs. In December 1939, he was appointed a judge of the

to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationIll health compelled Judge O'Brien to tender his resignation on December 7, effective December 31, 1939. He died on December 25, before the resignation could take effect, but Conway's appointment was announced already on December 22, to take effect on January 1, 1940 of John F. O'Brien. In November 1940, he was elected on the

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and American Labor tickets to a full 14-year term. He was elected on the Democratic, Republican and Liberal tickets Chief Judge in

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, and retired from the bench at the end of 1959 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years. He died at the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn.

Notes

Sources

Political Graveyard

Appointed county judge, in NYT on June 20, 1930 (subscription required)

Obit in NYT on May 19, 1969 (subscription required)

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