Benjamin J. Rabin

Benjamin J. Rabin

Benjamin J. Rabin (born June 3, 1896 in Rochester , New York , † February 22, 1969 in Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1945 and 1947 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin J. Rabin attended public schools in his hometown. He then went to New York University , but interrupted his studies because of the First World War on May 30, 1917 and signed up as a sailor in the US Navy . He was subsequently promoted to Ensign and served until January 1919. He then resumed his studies at New York University and graduated from its law faculty in 1919. He began practicing in New York City after receiving his bar license that same year. In May 1921 he resigned from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Ensign . He was then in 1934 and 1935 adviser to the New York State Joint Legislative Committee , which examined mortgage insurance. He then advised the New York Mortgage Commission between 1935 and 1937 and was its chairman between 1937 and 1939. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1944 congressional election for the 79th Congress , Rabin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 24th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded James M. Fitzpatrick on January 4, 1945 . He was re-elected once, but resigned from his seat in the US House of Representatives on December 31, 1947.

He was elected judge on the New York Supreme Court . He took his oath of office on January 5, 1948. In January 1955, Governor W. Averell Harriman named him associate judge in the Appeals Chamber for his remaining term on December 31, 1961. He was re-elected for a fourteen-year term, but died before the end of this on February 22, 1969 in Palm Beach. His body was then in the Riverside Cemetery in Rochelle Park ( New Jersey buried).

Web links

• Benjamin J. Rabin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benjamin J. Rabin in the database of Find a Grave (English)