Morris Weinfeld

Morris Weinfeld (December 28, 1898 – April 13, 1988) was a Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.

Life

Weinfeld was born on December 28, 1898, in New York City, New York, the son of Abraham Weinfeld and Fannie Singer.{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89060422565&view=1up&seq=641|title=Who's Who in American Jewry: 1926|publisher=The Jewish Biographical Bureau, Inc.|year=1927|isbn=|location=New York, N.Y.|pages=639|via=HathiTrust}} His brother was United States District Judge Edward Weinfeld.{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=30 November 1960|title=Magistrate Sworn In|volume=CX|page=22|work=The New York Times|issue=37566|location=New York, N.Y.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/11/30/99897821.pdf|access-date=}}

Weinfeld graduated from New York University School of Law in 1921. He had a law office on 25 Broadway.

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,{{Cite book|last=Malcolm|first=James|url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/562888-new-york-red-book-an-illustrated-legislative-manual-containing-the-portraits-and-biographies-of-the-u-s-senators-governor-state-officers-and-members-of-the-legislature-also-with-the-portraits-of-judges-and-court-reporters-1924?viewer=1&offset=0#page=226&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1924|isbn=|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=119|via=FamilySearch}} 1925,{{Cite book|last=Malcolm|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vc8GAQAAIAAJ|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1925|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=120–121|via=Google Books}} 1926,{{Cite book|last=Malcolm|first=James|url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/493504-new-york-red-book-an-illustrated-legislative-manual-containing-the-portraits-and-biographies-of-the-u-s-senators-governor-state-officers-and-members-of-the-legislature-also-with-the-portraits-of-judges-and-court-reporters-1926?viewer=1&offset=0#page=234&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1926|isbn=|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=123|via=FamilySearch}} and 1927.{{Cite book|last=Malcolm|first=James|url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/469882-new-york-red-book-an-illustrated-legislative-manual-containing-the-portraits-and-biographies-of-the-u-s-senators-governor-state-officers-and-members-of-the-legislature-also-with-the-portraits-of-judges-and-court-reporters-1927?viewer=1&offset=0#page=149&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=|title=The New York Red Book|publisher=J. B. Lyon Company|year=1927|isbn=|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=98|via=FamilySearch}} 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.

Weinfeld was a member of the Odd Fellows and Phi Sigma Delta. In 1925, he married Beatrice Margel. They had a son, Bernard. In 1929, they lived separately, and by 1932 she was seeing singer Arthur Tracy.{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=31 January 1932|title=Child's Prattle Revealed Love Rival, Says Husband|volume=11|page=28|work=Sunday News|issue=42|location=New York, N.Y.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/414573081/|access-date=|via=Newspapers.com}} When Weinfeld found out, he had Tracy arrested for violating the Mann Act.{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=21 March 1932|title=Radio 'Street Singer' Faces Mann Charge|volume=13|pages=3, 6|work=New York Daily News|issue=230|location=New York, N.Y.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/414582451/|access-date=|via=Newspapers.com}} In 1938, he married widow Beatrice Ladin Block in a ceremony performed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=10 October 1938|title=Mrs. Beatrice Block Wed In Her Home|volume=LXXXVIII|page=13|work=The New York Times|issue=29479|location=New York, N.Y.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/10/10/98199469.pdf|access-date=}} 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.{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=26 October 1967|title=Mrs. Morris Weinfeld|volume=CXVII|page=47|work=The New York Times|issue=40087|location=New York, N.Y.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/26/90587054.pdf|access-date=}}

Weinfeld died from a cardiac arrest in a Queens nursing home on April 13, 1988.{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=15 April 1988|title=Morris Weinfeld, 89, An Ex-New York Judge|volume=CXXXVII|page=B6|work=The New York Times|issue=47476|location=New York, N.Y.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/obituaries/morris-weinfeld-89-an-ex-new-york-judge.html|access-date=}} He was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Morris Weinfeld|url=https://www.mounthebroncemetery.com/interment/?id=194214|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-02|website=Mount Hebron Cemetery}}

References

External links

[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weems-weinland.html#503.12.54 The Political Graveyard]
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75936525/morris-weinfeld Morris Weinfeld] at Find a Grave

{{succession box

| title = New York State Assembly
New York County, 6th District

| years = 1924–1927

| before = Sol Ullman

| after = Louis J. Lefkowitz

}}

Category:1898 births

Category:1988 deaths

Category:Politicians from Manhattan

Category:Lawyers from New York City

Category:New York University School of Law alumni

Category:20th-century American lawyers