Socialist Assemblymen Papers 1920

Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948

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Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. Born to a Welsh immigrant preacher and his wife in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes pursued a legal career in New York City. After working in private practice for several ye...

Mills, Ogden, 1856-1929

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De Witt, S. A. (Samuel Aaron), 1891-

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Solomon, Charles, 1889-1963

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Charles Solomon (1889-1963), a socialist, was born on New York City's lower East side of immigrant Jewish parents. He practiced labor law, joined the Socialist Party in 1910, and was elected to the New York State Assembly on the Socialist Party line in 1919. He was one of five such assemblymen refused their seats by the New York State Legislature that year. In 1920 he was again elected, and seated. He later ran unsuccessfully as a Socialist candidate for governor, senator, and New York City mayo...

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly

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The legislature had final authority over all land transactions and agreements with Indians. Petitions concerning such transactions and agreements were addressed to the legislature and referred to the assembly, which in turn referred the petition to various three-member committees or to the surveyor general or the comptroller. From the description of Petitions, correspondence and reports relating to Indians, 1783-1831. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 84144073 I...

Proskauer, Joseph M. (Joseph Meyer), 1877-1971

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Naumburg's brother-in-law; judge on New York State's Supreme Court. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1959-1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585596 Judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph M. Proskauer : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723111 ...

Waldman, Louis, 1892-

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Louis Waldman (1892-1982), a prominent labor lawyer of New York City, was born in the Ukraine. Following his emigration to America in 1909 he became a garment cutter, attended evening school and earned a civil engineering degree from Cooper Union and a law degree from New York Law School. Elected as a Socialist to the New York State Assembly, he was illegally expelled (1920) by a Republican majority. While in the Assembly he sponsored a social insurance bill which foreshadowed the social welfare...

Claessens, August, 1885-1954

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August Claessens was one of the most influential leaders in the educational and political development of the Socialist Party. He helped organize support for the Socialist Party within several New York City labor unions and in the fall of 1917 was elected to the New York State Assembly where he worked for legislation pertaining to child labor, the penal code's procedures for obtaining an admission of guilt, the abolishment of the Bolstead Act, the abolishment of the death penalty, and the regulat...

Orr, Samuel, 1890-

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