Seymour Halpern

Seymour Halpern (born 19 November 1913 in New York City; † 10 January 1997 ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1973 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Seymour Halpern was born about nine months before the outbreak of the First World War in New York City and grew up there. He attended Richmond Hill High School. Then he started in 1931 to work as a newspaper reporter, an activity which he pursued until 1933 in New York City and Chicago. Between 1932 and 1934 he was on the Seth Low College of Columbia University. Then he pursued insurance business.

He was in 1937 the staff of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia worked as his assistant and 1938-1940. Assistant to the President of the New York City Council Between 1941 and 1954 he sat in the Senate from New York. He was 1952-1954 a member of the Temporary State Commission to Revise the Civil Service Laws. Then he was 1956-1958 Member of the Mayor's Committee on Courts. He was 1948-1959 first vice president and then chairman of The Insurist Corporation of America.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1954 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the 84th Congress. In the congressional elections of 1958 he was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry J. Latham on 4 January 1959. He was re-elected once. Then he ran in the sixth electoral district of New York for the U.S. House of Representatives. After a successful election occurred on January 4, 1963, the successor of Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal. He was re-elected four times in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1972, he left after 3 January 1973 from the Congress.

He died on 10 January 1997 and was then buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale ( Queens ).