Simon W. Rosendale

Simon W. Rosendale

Simon Wolfe Rosendale (born June 23, 1842 in Albany , New York , † April 22, 1937 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was the first Jew to hold a national electoral office in New York.

Career

Simon Wolfe Rosendale was born and raised in Albany County during the Depression of 1837 . His childhood was overshadowed by the Mexican-American War . He graduated from the Academy in Barre ( Vermont ). He then studied law at Courtney & Cassidy's law firm in Albany, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1863 during the civil war . He became an assistant district attorney in Albany County. In 1868 he was elected recorder in Albany - a post he held for four years. He was Corporation Counsel in Albany from 1878 to 1881. In 1881 he founded a law firm with Rufus Wheeler Peckham. After Peckham's election as judge, he then entered into a partnership with Albert Hessberg.

Rosendale was elected Attorney General of New York in 1891. He held the post from 1892 to 1893. In his re-election in 1893, he suffered a defeat to the Republican Theodore E. Hancock .

In 1895 he published The Involution of Wampum as Currency: the Story Told By the Colonial Ordinances of New Netherland, 1641-1662.

The governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt appointed him in 1899 to the State Board of Charities - a post he held for 18 years. In 1919 he was one of the 31 prominent Jews who signed the Anti- Zionism memorandum. It was given to President Woodrow Wilson to be presented at the Paris Peace Conference. It was directed against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine .

Memberships

For ten years he was President of the Court of Appeal in the Order of B'nai B'rith . He served on the board of directors of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations for several years . In 1888 he chaired the convention in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ), in which the Jewish Publication Society of America was founded, and was vice president of the American Jewish Historical Society . He was President of the Board of Governors at Union College in Schenectady, New York, President of the Board of Trustees of Albany Medical College, and Governor of Albany City Hospital.

literature

• Albany Asks A Justice , The New York Times, September 4, 1895
• After Eighty Good Years , The New York Times, June 25, 1922
• Report Of The Forty-Ninth Year Of The Jewish Publication Society Of America 1936-1937 (PDF document)

Web links

• Simon W. Rosendale on the jewishencyclopedia.com website
• Simon W. Rosendale on The Political Graveyard website
• Jewish Museum Milwaukee - Simon W. Rosendale