- Irwin Steingut
Irwin Steingut (
October 19 ,1891 New York City - 1952) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician.Life
His father Simon Steingut was born in 1856 in
Hamburg , and emigrated to theUnited States in 1873. He settled inNew York City , and married Lena Wolbach who was born inKiev . Simon's father Joseph Steingut was a banker inHamburg . Irwin Steingut attended and graduated from Public School Nr. 19 in New York City. Then he studied law atNew York University , and graduated in 1912. Afterwards he worked for a year as areporter forAssociated Press . In 1913, he entered his father's real estate business at 47 West Forty-Second Street,Manhattan .On June 12, 1914, he married Rea Kaufmann (b. June 12, 1893 NYC). Their children were June Eleanor (b. August 12, 1917) and
Stanley Steingut .He was a Democratic member from Kings County of New York State Assembly from 1922 to 1952, was minority leader from 1930 to 1934 and 1936 to 1952, and was Speaker in 1935.
He was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention s of 1936, 1940, 1944 and 1948. He was a member of the New York Democratic State Committee in 1936 and 1948.ources
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=t59ZKGtPcfkC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=irwin+steingut&source=web&ots=7UHnyoIyCB&sig=TuuVcc5fmlkNci1b0Vco4J4P0bE#PPA111,M1 Google Book] Carl Wilhelm Schlegel: "Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry in the United States" (1917, re-published 2003, ISBN 0-806-31728-0)
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stein-steinmetz.html#RVM0QVMJS] Political Graveyard
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