Caroline K. Simon

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Caroline Klein Simon (born November 12, 1900 in New York City , † July 29, 1993 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

Nothing is known about Caroline Klein Simon's youth. In 1925 she graduated from New York University School of Law . The District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of Manhattan called them in a committee that the Domestic Relations Court Act revised. During World War II she was director of the Office of Civilian Defense for group activities in New York , New Jersey and Delaware .

Dewey, meanwhile elected governor of New York, appointed her to the temporary New York State War Council's Committee on Discrimination in Employment in 1943 and to the New York State Workers' Compensation Board in 1944 . She held both positions until 1945. After the war ended, she helped draft the first statewide discrimination law in the workplace based on race, religion or nationality and became a founding member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination.

In 1956, the Democratic governor of New York W. Averell Harriman appointed them to the new New York State Youth Commission. The following year, 1957, she ran as a Republican for the office of New York City Council President, but suffered a defeat to Abe Stark (1893-1972). In 1958 she worked as legal advisor for the American delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission.

New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller named her Secretary of State of New York - a post she held from 1959 to 1963. She was the second woman to hold this post after Florence ES Knapp . During her tenure, she enacted the first anti- block busting regulations, in which brokers fuel property owners' fears of racial and ethnic change in the neighborhood to trigger sales.

In 1963 she was appointed judge on the New York Court of Claims - a position she held until 1964.

She was Jewish and a member of the American Jewish Committee .

family

She was married to the lawyer Leopold K. Simon. The couple had two children: Lee K. Simon and Cathy Simon Prince. The couple divorced in the early 1950s. Then she married Irving W. Halpern († 1966), who was chief probation officer at the New York City Court of General Sessions .

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SURNAME Simon, Caroline K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon, Caroline Klein (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1993
Place of death New York City