Abraham Greenberg Explained

Abraham Greenberg
Office1:New York State Senate
Term Start1:1927
Term End1:1928
Office2:New York State Assembly
Term2:1908-1908
1913-1914
Party:Democratic Party
Birth Date:22 August 1881
Birth Place:New York City, New York, USA
Death Place:Manhattan, New York, USA

Abraham Greenberg (August 22, 1881, in New York City – May 10, 1941, in Manhattan, New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

Greenberg attended the public schools. In 1903, he began to practice law in New York City.[1]

Greenberg was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 31st D.) in 1908.

He was again a member of the State Assembly (New York Co., 26th D.) in 1913, and was one of the Managers (i.e. assemblymen who acted as prosecutors) at the impeachment trial of Governor William Sulzer.

Greenberg was declared elected to the 137th New York State Legislature, and sat through the whole regular session while his election was contested by Progressive Joseph Steinberg. On March 27, 1914, the day before the annual adjournment sine die, Steinberg was seated in place of Greenberg.[2]

Greenberg was a member of the New York State Senate (17th D.) in 1927 and 1928. His election was unsuccessfully contested by Republican Courtlandt Nicoll.[3]

He died on May 10, 1941, in the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIGAQAAIAAJ&q=august+22+1881 New York Red Book
  2. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/03/28/100085127.pdf $1,500 for a Day in Assembly
  3. https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C17FB3A59127A93C4A81789D85F4C8285F9 GREENBERG'S RIGHT TO SEAT CONFIRMED
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/05/11/archives/a-greenberg-dies-exstffe-seiator-t-tammany-candidate-wlo-won-1926.html A. GREENBERG DIES; EX-STATE SENATOR