Carl Sherman

Carl Sherman (born October 16, 1890 in Olomouc , Austria-Hungary , † July 17, 1956 in Larchmont , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Nothing is known about Carl Sherman's youth. He lived in Buffalo, New York. At some point he studied law and was admitted to the bar. The President Woodrow Wilson appointed him as Deputy United States Attorney in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York . In the 1922 election he was elected Attorney General of New York, but suffered a defeat in his 1924 re-election to Republican Albert Ottinger . Sherman held the post from 1923 to 1924. He participated in 1924 and 1956 as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions and in 1948 as a substitute ( alternate delegate ) to the Democratic National Convention. From 1945 to 1950 he was Treasurer on the New York State Democratic Committee. He was Vice President of the American Jewish Congress in 1929. He died while holidaying in Larchmont (New York) and was then on the Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus ( New Jersey buried).

literature

• American Jewish Year Book , p. 164 (PDF document)
• Judge Hazel Aids Sherman , The New York Times, November 3, 1922
• James Terry White, George Derby: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Molding the Thought of the Present Time. : Volume 45, JT White & Co., New York, 1967, p. 228.

Web links

• Carl Sherman on The Political Graveyard website