Heller, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1905-1993

HELLER, Louis Benjamin, a Representative from New York; born in New York City February 10, 1905; attended the public schools; was graduated from Fordham University School of Law in New York City, LL.B., 1926; was admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced the practice of law in Brooklyn, N.Y.; served as special deputy assistant attorney general in election fraud cases in New York 1936-1946; appeal agent, United States Selective Service, in New York in 1941 and 1942; member of the State senate in 1943 and 1944; appointed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as secretary of the New York State Temporary Commission Against Discrimination in 1944 and 1945; Democratic State committeeman and executive member (leader) of the sixth assembly district of Kings County, N.Y., 1944-1954; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John J. Delaney; reelected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses and served from February 15, 1949, until his resignation July 21, 1954; appointed a judge of the Court of Special Sessions of New York City and served from July 22, 1954, to December 1958, when elected a justice of the city court of the city of New York, in which position he served until August 6, 1966; judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 1966-1977; was a resident of Lauderhill, Fla., until his death in Plantation, Fla., on October 30, 1993.

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li> 11/08/1966 NY State Supreme Court 02 Won 13.89% (-4.73%)</li>
<li> 11/04/1952 NY District 8 Won 65.28% (+32.64%)</li>
<li> 11/07/1950 NY District 7 Won 56.98% (+20.51%)</li>
<li> 02/15/1949 NY District 7 Special Won 54.84% (+16.16%)</li>
<li> 11/03/1942 NY State Senate 07 Won 69.55% (+39.10%)</li>
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<p>Louis Benjamin Heller (February 10, 1905 – October 30, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.</p>

<p>He was born on February 10, 1905, on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Louis was the second of four children of Max and Dora Heller. The Hellers had emigrated from Romania just a few years before the birth of their first child, a daughter named Freida.</p>

<p>Louis B. Heller graduated from Fordham Law School in 1926. He served as a special deputy assistant attorney general for cases of election fraud from 1936 until 1946. He was an appeal agent with the United States Selective Service from 1941 until 1942.</p>

<p>He was a member of the New York State Senate (7th D.) in 1943 and 1944.</p>