Benjamin J. Rabin

Benjamin J. Rabin ( born June 3, 1896 in Rochester, New York, † February 22, 1969 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1945 and 1947 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin J. Rabin attended public schools in his hometown. He then went to New York University, but interrupted his studies because of the First World War on 30 May 1917 and signed up as a sailor in the U.S. Navy. As a result, he was promoted to Ensign and served until January 1919. Subsequently, he continued his studies at New York University on again and graduated in 1919 at the Faculty of Law. After receiving his license to practice law in the same year he began to practice in New York City. In May 1921, he joined with the rank of Ensign in the Naval Reserve from. He was then in 1934 and 1935, an advisor to the New York State Joint Legislative Committee, which mortgage insurance examined. Then he consulted 1935-1937 the Mortgage Commission of New York and was its chairman 1937-1939. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1944 for the 79th Congress Rabin was in the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James M. Fitzpatrick on January 4, 1945. He was re-elected once, but appeared for the December 31, 1947 down from his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He was elected judge of the New York Supreme Court, he put his oath of office on January 5, 1948. In January 1955, the Governor W. Averell Harriman named him to the associate judge in the Appeals Chamber for the residue term of December 31, 1961. He was re- elected for a fourteen- year term of office, died however, before the end of this February 22, 1969 in Palm Beach. His body was then buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Rochelle Park (New Jersey).