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Nathan D. Perlman

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Nathan D. Perlman
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 14th district
In office
November 2, 1920 – March 3, 1927
Preceded byFiorello La Guardia
Succeeded byWilliam I. Sirovich
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the New York County, 6th district
In office
January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1917
Preceded byWilliam Sulzer
Succeeded byElmer Rosenberg
Personal details
Born
Nathan David Perlman

(1887-08-02)August 2, 1887
Prusice, Poland
DiedJune 29, 1952(1952-06-29) (aged 64)
New York City
Political partyRepublican
Alma materCollege of the City of New York
New York University Law School

Nathan David Perlman (August 2, 1887 – June 29, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician from New York who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1920 to 1927.

Life

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Born in Prusice, Poland,[1][2] Perlman immigrated to the United States in 1891 with his mother where they settled in New York City. After attending the city's public schools he pursued higher education by attending College of the City of New York; and New York University Law School. Perlman graduated from law school in 1907, was admitted to the bar in 1909, and practiced law in New York City.

State assembly

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Perlman was a Special Deputy New York Attorney General from 1912 to 1914; and a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 6th D.) in 1915, 1916 and 1917.

Congress

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He was elected as a Republican to the 66th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fiorello H. La Guardia. Perlman was re-elected to the 67th, 68th and 69th United States Congresses, holding office from November 2, 1920, to March 3, 1927.

Later career

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Afterwards Perlman resumed the practice of law. He was a delegate to the New York State Convention to enact the Twenty-first Amendment, and then became a New York City Magistrate serving from May 1, 1935, to September 1, 1936.

Perlman wanted to disrupt rallies in New York organized by the German American Bund, but could not find any legal means or justification to do so. Setting the law aside, Perlman then conspired with the organized crime figure Meyer Lansky to violently attack the rallies using Jewish mobsters. These attacks went on for months.[3][4]

At the New York state election, 1936, he ran on the Republican ticket for New York Attorney General but was defeated by the incumbent John J. Bennett Jr. He was then appointed as a justice of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York on November 26, 1936, and was re-appointed on July 1, 1945. Perlman was subsequently appointed to the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.[5]

Perlman was a senior official of the American Jewish Congress and, in 1945, consulted with and provided assistance to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, President Truman's appointee to serve as chief U.S. prosecutor of Nazi war criminals.

Death and burial

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Perlman died at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, and was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens.[1]

Electoral history

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1920 election: District 14[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Nathan D. Perlman 18,042 45.2%
Socialist Algernon Lee 8,515 21.3%
None Blank, scattering, defective and void 3,370 8.4%
Total votes 39,927 100%
1922 election: District 14[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Nathan D. Perlman (incumbent) 8,782 37.4%
Democratic David H. Knott 8,173 34.8%
Socialist Jacob Panken 6,459 27.5%
Prohibition Kenneth S. Guthrie 94 0.4%
Total votes 23,508 100%
1924 election: District 14[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Nathan D. Perlman (incumbent) 12,046 43.5%
Democratic William Irving Sirovich 11,920 43.0%
Socialist William Karlin 3,165 11.4%
Workers Ludwig Lore 216 0.8%
Total votes 27,707 100%
1926 election: District 14[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic William Irving Sirovich 11,809 47.4%
Republican Nathan D. Perlman (incumbent) 10,688 42.9%
Socialist S.E. Beardsley 1,277 5.1%
None Blank, void, and scattering 1,060 4.3%
Workers Alexander Trachtenberg 112 0.4%
Total votes 24,930 100%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Nathan Perlman, Jurist, 64, Is Dead - Associate Justice of *Court of Special Sessions Had Been U.S. Representative 4 Terms". New York Times. June 30, 1952. p. 19. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica book of the year, 1953, page 530
  3. ^ "Jewish Gangsters in America".
  4. ^ Benson, Michael (2022). Gangsters vs Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America. New York: Citadel Press. pp. 45–51. ISBN 9780806541792.
  5. ^ Hixson, Richard F. (1996). Pornography and the Justices: The Supreme Court and the Intractable Obscenity Problem, p. 19. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.
  6. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 2, 1920". Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  7. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 7, 1922". Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  8. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 4, 1924". Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  9. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 2, 1926". Retrieved June 29, 2020.

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Party political offices
Preceded by
William T. Powers
 Republican nominee for Attorney General of New York
1936 		Succeeded by
Arthur V. McDermott
New York State Assembly
Preceded by New York State Assembly
New York County, 6th District
1915–1917 		Succeeded by
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 14th congressional district
1920–1927 		Succeeded by
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