Samuel Rabin (1905 – May 7, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was born in 1905 in

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. He graduated from

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, and in 1928 from

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. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in

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. In 1938, he married Florence Mittlemann, and they had two children. He entered politics as a Republican. He was a member of the

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(Queens Co., 8th D.) from 1945 to 1954, sitting in the 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th and

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s. In 1954, he was elected to the

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, and re-elected in 1968. From 1962 on, he sat on the Appellate Division (2nd Dept.), and Presiding Justice from 1971 on. In January 1974, he was appointed by Governor Malcolm Wilson to the

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, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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. In June 1974, he was designated by the Republican State Committee to run for one of the vacancies on the Court of Appeals but he declined to run, being already 69 years old, just one year short of the constitutional age limit. In 1975, he returned to the Appellate Division, and retired from the bench in 1981. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. He died on May 7, 1993, in

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.''Samuel Rabin, Long-Time Judge And Ex-Assemblyman, Dies at 87''
in the ''

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'' on May 8, 1993

References

Sources

''The History of the New York Court of Appeals, 1932-2003''
by

Bernard S. Meyer Bernard Stern Meyer (June 7, 1916 Baltimore, Maryland – September 3, 2005 Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Life He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1936, and from University of Maryland S ...

, Burton C. Agata & Seth H. Agata (page 29) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rabin, Samuel Judges of the New York Court of Appeals 1905 births 1993 deaths Cornell University alumni New York University School of Law alumni People from Queens, New York New York Supreme Court Justices Members of the New York State Assembly 20th-century American judges 20th-century American politicians