Mitchell May

Mitchell May

Mitchell May (born July 10, 1870 in Brooklyn , New York , † March 24, 1961 ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1899 and 1901 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mitchell May was born about five years after the end of the Civil War in the then still separate city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute . In 1892 he graduated from Columbia University's law school in New York City . He was admitted to the bar the following year and then began practicing in Brooklyn. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1898 May was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of New York , where he succeeded James R. Howe on March 4, 1899 . Since he on a run again in 1900 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1901 Congress of.

Between 1906 and 1910 he served on the New York City Education Committee. He then served as assistant district attorney in Kings County in 1910 and 1911 , and as Secretary of State of New York in 1913 and 1914 . Between 1916 and 1921 he was a district judge in Kings County. On January 1, 1922, he was appointed to the New York Supreme Court - a position he held until he resigned on December 31, 1940, when he had reached the mandatory retirement age. He then resumed his practice as a lawyer. He died in Brooklyn on March 24, 1961 and was then buried in Valhalla Cemetery on Staten Island .

Web links

• Mitchell May in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Mitchell May in the database of Find a Grave (English)