Eric Louis Boetzel (May 18, 1884 - January 1958) was the deputy Attorney General of New York State, and a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney.[1]
Biography
editHe was born in Germany on May 18, 1884 to Augusta and Theodore Boetzel. They arrived in the United States in November 1889 and on June 2, 1905 he was made a US citizen.[2] In 1907 he graduated from New York University with a law degree.[3] In 1913 he resigned as Assistant District Attorney to become the assistant manager of the 1913 New York City mayoralty campaign of John Purroy Mitchel, the fusion candidate, who won the mayoralty. In 1919 Boetzel was convicted for mail fraud. In 1920 he was disbarred.[4] By 1941 he was living in Ridgewood, New Jersey and working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.[2] He died in January 1958 in Florida.
References
edit- ^ "Verbal Bout". The New York Times. March 17, 1914. Retrieved 2010-03-22.
Eric L. Boetzel, who is an ex-Deputy Attorney General and an ex-Assistant District Attorney, ... Boetzel, with others, had conspired to break up his home. ...
- ^ a b World War I draft registration and World War II draft registration and 1900 US Census and Naturalization
- ^ Catalogue. New York University. 1909. p. 188.
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- ^ "Eric L. Boetzel disbarred". Wikipedia Library. New York Herald. 14 February 1920. Retrieved 2024-04-20.