Seymour Halpern

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Seymour Halpern

Seymour Halpern (born November 19, 1913 in New York City , † January 10, 1997 ) was an American politician . Between 1959 and 1973 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Seymour Halpern was born and raised in New York City about nine months before the outbreak of World War I. He attended Richmond Hill High School . Then he started working as a newspaper reporter in 1931, an activity he pursued in New York City and Chicago until 1933 . Between 1932 and 1934 he was at Seth Low College at Columbia University . Then he pursued insurance deals.

He served in 1937 on the staff of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as his assistant and between 1938 and 1940 as assistant to the President of the New York City Council . Between 1941 and 1954 he was a member of the New York Senate . He was a member of the Temporary State Commission to Revise the Civil Service Laws between 1952 and 1954 . Then he was a member of the Mayor's Committee on Courts between 1956 and 1958 . He was first Vice President and then Chairman of The Insurist Corporation of America between 1948 and 1959 .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In 1954 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the 84th Congress . In the congressional elections of 1958 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Henry J. Latham on January 4, 1959 . He was re-elected once. He then ran for the US House of Representatives in the sixth constituency of New York. After a successful election, Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal took over on January 4, 1963 . He was re-elected four times in a row. Since he on a run again in 1972 renounced, he left after 3 January 1973, the Congress of.

He died on 10 January 1997 and was then on the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale ( Queens buried).

literature

Web links

  • Seymour Halpern in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Halpern, Seymour
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1997