Halpern, Seymour, 1913-1997

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li>11/03/1970 NY District 6 Won 77.28% (+54.55%)</li>
<li>11/05/1968 NY District 6 Won 57.51% (+27.45%)</li>
<li>11/08/1966 NY District 6 Won 59.05% (+29.61%)</li>
<li>11/03/1964 NY District 6 Won 57.05% (+14.11%)</li>
<li>11/06/1962 NY District 6 Won 63.32% (+26.64%)</li>
<li>11/08/1960 NY District 4 Won 55.08% (+10.16%)</li>
<li>11/04/1958 NY District 4 Won 52.56% (+5.13%)</li>
<li>11/02/1954 NY District 6 Lost 45.51% (-8.98%)</li>
<li>11/04/1952 NY State Senate 04 Won 64.14% (+35.33%)</li>
<li>11/07/1950 NY State Senate 04 Won 60.79% (+29.97%)</li>
<li>11/02/1948 NY State Senate 04 Won 58.81% (+25.96%)</li>
<li>11/05/1946 NY State Senate 04 Won 71.79% (+47.94%)</li>
<li>11/07/1944 NY State Senate 04 Won 61.30% (+27.69%)</li>
<li>11/03/1942 NY State Senate 02 Won 53.23% (+6.47%)</li>
<li>11/05/1940 NY State Senate 02 Won 48.26% (+0.84%)</li>
<li>11/02/1937 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Lost 35.13% (-20.66%)</li>
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<p>Seymour Halpern (November 19, 1913 – January 10, 1997) was an American politician from New York.</p>

<p>He was born in New York City. He graduated from Richmond Hill High School and attended Seth Low College of Columbia University from 1932 to 1934. He worked as a newspaper reporter in New York and Chicago from 1931 to 1933 and also engaged in the insurance business.</p>

<p>Halpern was a staff assistant to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1937; and an assistant to the President of the New York City Council from 1938 to 1940.</p>

<p>He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1941 to 1954, sitting in the 163rd, 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th and 169th New York State Legislatures. He also served as a member of the Temporary State Commission to Revise the Civil Service Laws from 1952 to 1954. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the 84th Congress in 1954.</p>

HALPERN, Seymour, a Representative from New York; born in New York City November 19, 1913; graduate of Richmond Hill High School; attended Seth Low College of Columbia University, 1932-1934; newspaper reporter in New York and Chicago, 1931-1933; engaged in the insurance business; staff assistant to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 1937; assistant to president of New York City Council, 1938-1940; member, State senate, 1941-1954; member, Temporary State Commission to Revise the Civil Service Laws, 1952-1954; member, Mayor's Committee on Courts, 1956-1958; vice president and later chairman of the board, The Insurist Corporation of America, 1948-1959; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; died on January 10, 1997, in Southampton, N.Y.; interment in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, N.Y.