Holtzman, Lester, 1913-2002

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li> 11/08/1960 NY District 6 Won 65.62% (+31.23%)</li>
<li> 11/04/1958 NY District 6 Won 63.56% (+27.12%)</li>
<li> 11/06/1956 NY District 6 Won 56.85% (+13.70%)</li>
<li> 11/02/1954 NY District 6 Won 54.49% (+8.98%)</li>
<li> 09/14/1954 NY District 6 - D Primary Won 60.13% (+20.25%)</li>
<li> 11/04/1952 NY District 6 Won 49.20% (+0.25%)</li>
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<p>Lester Holtzman (June 1, 1913 – November 12, 2002) was an American jurist and politician. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives and was a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1962 until 1973.</p>

<p>Holtzman was born in New York City on June 1, 1913 to Jewish immigrants from Poland, Isidore and Rebecca. Lester was the couple's only child born in the United States and the only one to survive infancy. The family lived on the Lower East Side in Manhattan until 1916, when Lester contracted polio. The settled in the Middle Village, in Queens which might offer a better chance to recover. He attended Newtown High School in Queens until his father bought a small grocery where Lester would work while doing Prelaw work in the evening.</p>

<p>He was the president of his class at St. John's University School of Law and graduated in 1936. Afterwards, he went into private practice in Queens.</p>

HOLTZMAN, Lester, a Representative from New York; born in New York City, June 1, 1913; attended the public schools; graduated from St. John's Prelaw School; LL.B., St. John's Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1935; was admitted to the bar in 1935 and began practice in Middle Village, Queens County, N.Y.; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses until his resignation on December 31, 1961 (January 3, 1953-December 31, 1961); justice, New York State Supreme Court, 1962-1973; president and chief executive officer of Central Queens Savings and Loan Association; died on November 12, 2002.