Nathan D. Perlman

Born in Prusice, Poland,{{cite news|title=Nathan Perlman, Jurist, 64, Is Dead - Associate Justice of *Court of Special Sessions Had Been U.S. Representative 4 Terms|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/30/84329385.html?pageNumber=19|access-date=17 April 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=June 30, 1952|page=19}}Encyclopædia Britannica, [https://books.google.com/books?id=D14NAQAAMAAJ&q=%22perlman,+nathan+d%22+prusice Britannica book of the year], 1953, page 530 Perlman immigrated to the United States in 1891 with his mother where they settled in New York City. After attending the city's public schools he pursued higher education by attending College of the City of New York; and New York University Law School. Perlman graduated from law school in 1907, was admitted to the bar in 1909, and practiced law in New York City.

Perlman was a Special Deputy New York Attorney General from 1912 to 1914; and a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 6th D.) in 1915, 1916 and 1917.

He was elected as a Republican to the 66th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fiorello H. La Guardia. Perlman was re-elected to the 67th, 68th and 69th United States Congresses, holding office from November 2, 1920, to March 3, 1927.

Afterwards Perlman resumed the practice of law. He was a delegate to the New York State Convention to enact the Twenty-first Amendment, and then became a New York City Magistrate serving from May 1, 1935, to September 1, 1936.

Perlman wanted to disrupt rallies in New York organized by the German American Bund, but could not find any legal means or justification to do so. Setting the law aside, Perlman then conspired with the organized crime figure Meyer Lansky to violently attack the rallies using Jewish mobsters. These attacks went on for months.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/gangsters.html|title = Jewish Gangsters in America}}{{cite book |last=Benson |first=Michael |author-link= |date=2022 |title=Gangsters vs Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America |location=New York |publisher=Citadel Press |pages=45–51 |isbn=9780806541792}}

At the New York state election, 1936, he ran on the Republican ticket for New York Attorney General but was defeated by the incumbent John J. Bennett Jr. He was then appointed as a justice of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York on November 26, 1936, and was re-appointed on July 1, 1945. Perlman was subsequently appointed to the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.Hixson, Richard F. (1996). Pornography and the Justices: The Supreme Court and the Intractable Obscenity Problem, p. 19. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.

Perlman was a senior official of the American Jewish Congress and, in 1945, consulted with and provided assistance to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, President Truman's appointee to serve as chief U.S. prosecutor of Nazi war criminals.

Perlman died at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, and was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens.

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Nathan D. Perlman

| votes = 18,042

| percentage = 45.2%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Socialist Party of America

| candidate = Algernon Lee

| votes = 8,515

| percentage = 21.3%

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{{Election box candidate no change

| party = None

| candidate = Blank, scattering, defective and void

| votes = 3,370

| percentage = 8.4%

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 39,927

| percentage = 100%

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Nathan D. Perlman (incumbent)

| votes = 8,782

| percentage = 37.4%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = David H. Knott

| votes = 8,173

| percentage = 34.8%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Socialist Party of America

| candidate = Jacob Panken

| votes = 6,459

| percentage = 27.5%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Prohibition Party

| candidate = Kenneth S. Guthrie

| votes = 94

| percentage = 0.4%

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 23,508

| percentage = 100%

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Nathan D. Perlman (incumbent)

| votes = 12,046

| percentage = 43.5%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = William Irving Sirovich

| votes = 11,920

| percentage = 43.0%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Socialist Party of America

| candidate = William Karlin

| votes = 3,165

| percentage = 11.4%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Workers Party of America

| candidate = Ludwig Lore

| votes = 216

| percentage = 0.8%

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 27,707

| percentage = 100%

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = William Irving Sirovich

| votes = 11,809

| percentage = 47.4%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Nathan D. Perlman (incumbent)

| votes = 10,688

| percentage = 42.9%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Socialist Party of America

| candidate = S.E. Beardsley

| votes = 1,277

| percentage = 5.1%

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{{Election box candidate no change

| party = None

| candidate = Blank, void, and scattering

| votes = 1,060

| percentage = 4.3%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Workers Party of America

| candidate = Alexander Trachtenberg

| votes = 112

| percentage = 0.4%

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 24,930

| percentage = 100%

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