Edward Weil (April 12, 1872 – March 4, 1932) was a Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.

Life

Weil was born on April 12, 1872, in

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. His father was Isaac Weil, a German immigrant and garment worker. Weil attended Grammar School No. 15 and the old Fifth Street school. He then went to the

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, graduating from there with an

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in 1893. He was admitted to the bar in 1898 and developed an extensive law practice in New York City. He initially had a private practice in

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, later practicing in Yorkville. In 1910, Weil was elected to the

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as a

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, representing the

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22nd District. He served in the Assembly in

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, and

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. He lost the 1913 re-election to

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. He worked as Assistant

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from 1916 to 1922, first under

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and then under Joab H. Banton. In 1922, Mayor

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appointed him Magistrate to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Magistrate Raphael Tobias. At the end of the three-year term, he was reappointed Magistrate for a full ten-year term. Weil was president of the Harlem Old Timers, Past Regent of the Manhattan Council of the

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, and a member of the Grand Street Boys Association, the

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, the

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, and the

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. His wife died in 1927, and his children were Robert and Joseph Edward. Weil died at home from a cardiac attack on March 4, 1932. His funeral took place in the Free Synagogue, with Rabbi Louis I. Newman delivering the eulogy. The pallbearers were members of the Harlem Old Timers Club (which he headed for many years), and his funeral was attended by (among other people) Surrogate

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and a number of magistrates and judges. He was buried in Mount Neboh Cemetery.

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