Solomon Ullman ( – July 6, 1941) was a Jewish-American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
Ullman was born around 1893 in
New York City, New York
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, the son of Samuel and Kate Ullman.
Ullman attended
Townsend Harris High School
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and graduated from
New York Law School
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in 1912. He was admitted to the bar in 1913 and began practicing law in 51 Chambers Street. In 1918, he was elected to the
New York State Assembly
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The Assem ...
over Socialist
Elmer Rosenberg
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Life
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, representing the
New York County
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6th District. He was a
Republican
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, but ran as a
Democrat
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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as well as a Republican. He served in the Assembly in
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...
,
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
,
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil.
** The Spanish lin ...
,
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
, and
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
. He lost the 1923 re-election to Democrat Morris Weinfeld. He wrote a number of important bills in the Assembly, including the Home Rule Amendment and the Repeal the Lusk Laws.
In July 1921, while serving on the joint legislative graft committee, Ullman was arrested with his law partner Emanuel Friedman, public accountants Justus Frankel and Meyer Saal, and internal revenue agent Harry Levy on a charge of a conspiracy to defraud the government by filing a false income tax return to the Treasury Department. He and the other four men were indicted by a Federal grand jury later that month. Their trial began in September 1921, with the five men facing charges of defrauding the government out of income and profit taxes, extorting 6,500 dollars from a business house, and bribing an official to file a false report. The charge of conspiring to defraud the government was dismissed against all the defendants, and Ullman and Friedman were acquitted of the other two charges.
Ullman was assistant
attorney general
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, assigned to the State
Department of Education
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New York's 14th congressional district
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. He lost the election to Democrat
William I. Sirovich
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. He was also an alternate delegate to the
1928 Republican National Convention
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.
Ullman resigned as assistant attorney general in February 1939. In March 1939, he was indicted on charges of bribery and accepting 13,000 dollars in unlawful fees in a conspiracy with others to protect a
Brooklyn
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physician connected with an alleged abortion racket that handled around 100,000 illegal abortions a year in the borough. He faced automatic disbarment if convicted. The indictment was dismissed by New York Supreme Court Justice
John MacCrate
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in May 1940, after which Assistant Attorney General John Amen filed disbarment charges against Ullman. He was exonerated of charges.
Ullman was a member of the
New York City Bar Association
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, the
New York County Lawyers' Association
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, the
New York State Bar Association
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, the
American Bar Association
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, the
Freemasons
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, and the
Modern Woodmen of America
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. In 1916, he married Estelle Ruth Blau. Their children were Gerald Howard and James.
Ullman died in
Lenox Hill Hospital
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on July 6, 1941. A thousand people attended his funeral in
Nathan D. Perlman
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Born in Prusice, Poland, Perlman immigrated to the United States in 1891 with his mother where they settled in New York City. A ...
, Minority Leader of the Assembly
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, State Housing Commissioner
Edward Weinfeld
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, and former assembly
Meyer Alterman
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. He was buried in the family mausoleum in Union Field Cemetery in Cypress Hills.