Theodore R. Kupferman

Theodore R. Kupferman, 1967

Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman (born May 12, 1920 in New York City , † September 23, 2003 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1966 and 1969 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman was born and raised in New York City about two years after the end of World War I. He graduated from De Witt Clinton High School in New York City. Then he went to the City College of New York , which he left with a Bachelor of Science . He then did his Bachelor of Laws at Columbia Law School . He was admitted to the bar in 1943 and then began to practice. In 1948 he was admitted to the United States Supreme Court . He served as Law Secretary in the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court in 1948 and 1949 . He then worked in the legal department of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. between 1943 and 1948 and between 1949 and 1951. He then worked for National Broadcasting Co. Inc. between 1951 and 1953 . In 1953 he became general counsel at Cinerama Productions Corp. - a position he held until 1958. Between 1959 and 1964 he was assistant professor ( adjunct professor ) of law at the New York Law School . In addition, he worked between 1958 and 1962 as Counsel and Legislative Assistant to the Minority Leader in New York City Council . Between 1962 and 1966 he was a councilman in New York City. Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

Kupferman was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in a by-election on February 8, 1966 in the 17th  constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of John Lindsay . He was elected to the 90th Congress in the 1966 congressional elections . Since he on a run again in 1968 renounced, he left the after January 3, 1969 Congress of.

Between 1969 and 1996 he served as a judge on the New York Supreme Court . He died on September 23, 2003 in New York City.

Web links

• Theodore R. Kupferman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Theodore R. Kupferman in the database of Find a Grave (English)