Isidore Dollinger

Isidore Dollinger

Isidore Dollinger (born November 13, 1903 in New York City , † January 30, 2000 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1949 and 1959 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Isidore Dollinger graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Computer Science in 1925 and a Bachelor of Laws from New York Law School in 1928 . He was admitted to the bar in 1929. He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1937 and 1944 and the New York Senate between 1945 and 1948 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1948 congressional election for the 81st Congress , Dollinger was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 24th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Leo Isacson on January 4, 1949 . He was re-elected once. In 1952 he ran in the 23rd constituency of New York for the 83rd Congress . After a successful election, he succeeded Sidney A. Fine on January 4, 1953 . He was re-elected twice in a row, but resigned from his seat in the US House of Representatives on December 31, 1959, before the end of his last term in office.

As a delegate, he took part in the Democratic National Conventions in 1956 and 1960 . Between 1960 and 1968 he was the successor of Daniel V. Sullivan District Attorney in Bronx County . On January 1, 1969, he became a judge on the New York Supreme Court for the first judicial district - a post he held until December 31, 1975. He lived in New York City until his death on January 30, 2000. His body was then interred in White Plains .

Web links

• Isidore Dollinger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Isidore Dollinger at The Political Graveyard