Morris Weinfeld (December 28, 1898 – April 13, 1988) was a Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.
Life
editWeinfeld was born on December 28, 1898, in New York City, New York, the son of Abraham Weinfeld and Fannie Singer.[1] His brother was United States District Judge Edward Weinfeld.[2]
Weinfeld graduated from New York University School of Law in 1921.[3] He had a law office on 25 Broadway.[4]
In 1923, Weinfeld was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing the New York County 6th District. He served in the Assembly in 1924,[5] 1925,[4] 1926,[6] and 1927.[7] He later served as Deputy Attorney General of New York, and in the 1930s he worked for the National Labor Relations Board. He served as a judge for the Criminal Court from 1960 to 1968. After he retired from the bench, he joined the Manhattan law firm Blum, Haimoff, Gersen, Lipson, Garley & Neidergang and was involved with the firm until his health declined in 1987.[3]
Weinfeld was a member of the Odd Fellows and Phi Sigma Delta.[4] In 1925, he married Beatrice Margel.[1] They had a son, Bernard. In 1929, they lived separately, and by 1932 she was seeing singer Arthur Tracy.[8] When Weinfeld found out, he had Tracy arrested for violating the Mann Act.[9] In 1938, he married widow Beatrice Ladin Block in a ceremony performed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.[10] Block was the first national secretary of the American Jewish Congress, a delegate to the first World Jewish Congress, and an organizer of the Bundles for Britain Agency.[11]
Weinfeld died from a cardiac arrest in a Queens nursing home on April 13, 1988.[3] He was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery.[12]
References
edit- ^ a b Who's Who in American Jewry: 1926. New York, N.Y.: The Jewish Biographical Bureau, Inc. 1927. p. 639 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Magistrate Sworn In" (PDF). The New York Times. Vol. CX, no. 37566. New York, N.Y. 30 November 1960. p. 22.
- ^ a b c "Morris Weinfeld, 89, An Ex-New York Judge". The New York Times. Vol. CXXXVII, no. 47476. New York, N.Y. 15 April 1988. p. B6.
- ^ a b c Malcolm, James (1925). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 120–121 – via Google Books.
- ^ Malcolm, James (1924). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 119 – via FamilySearch.
- ^ Malcolm, James (1926). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 123 – via FamilySearch.
- ^ Malcolm, James (1927). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 98 – via FamilySearch.
- ^ "Child's Prattle Revealed Love Rival, Says Husband". Sunday News. Vol. 11, no. 42. New York, N.Y. 31 January 1932. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Radio 'Street Singer' Faces Mann Charge". New York Daily News. Vol. 13, no. 230. New York, N.Y. 21 March 1932. pp. 3, 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. Beatrice Block Wed In Her Home" (PDF). The New York Times. Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 29479. New York, N.Y. 10 October 1938. p. 13.
- ^ "Mrs. Morris Weinfeld" (PDF). The New York Times. Vol. CXVII, no. 40087. New York, N.Y. 26 October 1967. p. 47.
- ^ "Morris Weinfeld". Mount Hebron Cemetery. Retrieved 2021-02-02.