Morris Weinfeld (December 28, 1898 – April 13, 1988) was a Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.
Life
Weinfeld was born on December 28, 1898, in
New York City, New York, the son of Abraham Weinfeld and Fannie Singer.
His brother was
United States District Judge Edward Weinfeld
Edward Weinfeld (May 14, 1901 – January 17, 1988) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Education and career
Born on May 14, 1901, in New York City, New York, Weinfeld r ...
.
Weinfeld graduated from
New York University School of Law in 1921.
He had a law office on
25 Broadway
The Cunard Building, also known as the Standard & Poors Building, is a 22-story office building located at 25 Broadway, across from Bowling Green Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The Cunard Building was desig ...
.
In 1923, Weinfeld was elected to the
New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits.
The Assem ...
as a
Democrat, representing the
New York County 6th District. He served in the Assembly in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
,
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
,
1926
Events January
* January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.
* January 8
**Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
, and
1927
Events January
* January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
* January 7
* ...
. He later served as Deputy
Attorney General of New York
The attorney general of New York is the chief legal officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the Department of Law of the state government. The office has been in existence in some form since 1626, under the Dutch colonial government o ...
, and in the 1930s he worked for the
National Labor Relations Board. He served as a judge for the
Criminal Court from 1960 to 1968. After he retired from the bench, he joined the Manhattan law firm Blum, Haimoff, Gersen, Lipson, Garley & Neidergang and was involved with the firm until his health declined in 1987.
Weinfeld was a member of the
Odd Fellows and
Phi Sigma Delta.
In 1925, he married Beatrice Margel.
They had a son, Bernard. In 1929, they lived separately, and by 1932 she was seeing singer
Arthur Tracy. When Weinfeld found out, he had Tracy arrested for violating the
Mann Act. In 1938, he married widow Beatrice Ladin Block in a ceremony performed by Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise
Stephen Samuel Wise (March 17, 1874 – April 19, 1949) was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Born in Budapest, he was an infant when his family immigrated to New York. He followed his father ...
. Block was the first national secretary of the
American Jewish Congress
The American Jewish Congress (AJCongress or AJC) is an association of American Jews organized to defend Jewish interests at home and abroad through public policy advocacy, using diplomacy, legislation, and the courts.
History
The AJCongress was ...
, a delegate to the first
World Jewish Congress, and an organizer of the
Bundles for Britain Agency.
Weinfeld died from a cardiac arrest in a Queens nursing home on April 13, 1988.
He was buried in
Mount Hebron Cemetery.
References
External links
*
The Political Graveyard'
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1898 births
1988 deaths
Politicians from Manhattan
Lawyers from New York City
New York University School of Law alumni
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American politicians
Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly
Jewish American state legislators in New York (state)
20th-century American judges
New York (state) state court judges
National Labor Relations Board officials
Burials at Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
20th-century American Jews