Seymour Halpern

Seymour Halpern (November 19 1913 - January 10 1997) was a United States Representative from New York. He was born in New York City November 19, 1913. 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.

Halpern was a staff assistant to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1937. He was an assistant to president of New York City Council from 1938 to 1940 and a member of the State senate from 1941 to 1954. He also served as a member of the Temporary State Commission to Revise the Civil Service Laws from 1952 to 1954. He was a member of Mayor’s Committee on Courts from 1956 to 1958. He also served as vice president and later chairman of the board of the Insurist Corporation of America from 1948 to 1959.

Halpern was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954. He was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3 1959 - January 3 1973), representing parts of Queens. According to the 1970 edition of the Almanac of American Politics, Halpern was "one of the most liberal Republicans in the House." When Halpern's district was combined with that of Representative Lester Wolff he chose not to run for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress. He later worked in public relations.

He died on January 10 1997, aged 83.

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