Albert Ottinger

Albert E. Ottinger (born September 10, 1878 in New York City , † January 1938 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ). The Congressman Richard Ottinger is his nephew.

Career

Albert E. Ottinger, son of Amelia Gottlieb and Moses Ottinger, was born in New York City in 1878 and grew up there. Nothing is known about his youth. At some point he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served in the New York Senate in 1917 and 1918 for the 18th District . His term of office was overshadowed by the First World War . He was then Deputy United States Attorney General . In his new role, he decided that the US Congress could grant the Philippines independence if it so wished. The Philippines was an island possession and was therefore different from the states and territorial aid of the United States .

He was elected Attorney General of New York in the 1924 election and re-elected in 1926. He held the post from 1925 to 1928. During his second term, he was the only Republican to hold a state office. Ottinger was responsible for closing the disreputable bucket shops on Wall Street . He took part in the Republican National Conventions as a delegate in 1928 and 1932 .

While the Democratic Party the governor of New York Alfred E. Smith was nominated as their presidential candidate, the first time that a Catholic of a people's party for this took office, the Republican Party Ottinger nominated for the post of governor of New York, the first Jewish Candidate for gubernatorial in New York history. The Democratic Party nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for the post of governor and Herbert H. Lehman , also a Jew, for the post of lieutenant governor of New York. In the 1928 presidential election , Herbert Hoover was the winner. He won big. Religion clearly played a role in the choice. Instead, the gubernatorial election was one of the closest in New York history. Against the national republican trend, Roosevelt won the election by just 25,000 votes, less than 1% of the four million votes cast.

At the end of his tenure as Attorney General of New York, Ottinger summed up his tenure as follows:

"Hammer, hammer, hammer, at every manner and means of fraud and dishonesty, the prevention and assertion of which the Legislature has assigned to the Attorney General."

Web links

• Milestones, Jan. 24, 1938 , The Time Magazine

Individual evidence

1. ^ Declares Congress May Free Filipinos, The New York Times, May 3, 1924, p. 7
2. ^ Legal Affairs