Louis B. Heller

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Louis B. Heller, 1951

Louis Benjamin Heller (born February 10, 1905 in New York City , † October 30, 1993 in Plantation , Florida ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1949 and 1954 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis Benjamin Heller was born and raised in New York City about nine years before the outbreak of World War I. During this time he attended public schools and then went to the Fordham University School of Law in New York City, which he left again in 1926 with a Bachelor of Laws . He was admitted to the bar the following year and then began practicing in Brooklyn . Between 1936 and 1946 he served as Special Deputy Assistant Attorney General for election fraud in New York and in 1941 and 1942 as Appeal Agent in the United States Selective Service in New York. He served in the New York Senate in 1943 and 1944 . Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed him Secretary of the New York State Temporary Commission Against Discrimination in 1944 - a position he held until 1945. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . Between 1944 and 1954 he sat on the Democratic State Committee and chaired the Executive Committee of Kings County's Sixth Assembly District .

He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in a by-election on February 15, 1949 in the seventh constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of John J. Delaney . He was re-elected once. In 1952 he ran for the 83rd Congress . After a successful election, he succeeded Victor Anfuso on March 4, 1953 . However, he resigned from his seat on July 21, 1954.

He was appointed a judge on the Court of Special Sessions in New York City on July 22, 1954 - a position he held until December 1958. At that point he was elected a judge on the New York City Court . He held this position until August 6, 1966. Between 1966 and 1977 he was a judge on the New York Supreme Court . Then he lived in Lauderhill . He died on October 30, 1993 in Plantation.

Web links

  • Louis B. Heller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Louis B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heller, Louis Benjamin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1993
Place of death Plantation , Florida