Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal ( born June 8, 1923 in New York City; † January 4, 1983 in Washington DC) was an American soldier, lawyer and politician. Between 1962 and 1983 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal was born about five years after the end of World War II in New York City. He attended public schools, then the Long Iceland University and City College. Rosenthal served in the Second World War 1943-1946 in the U.S. Army. He then went on to Brooklyn Law School, which he left with a Bachelor of Laws in 1949. His Master of Laws he made in 1952 at New York University. The admission to the bar he received in 1949 and then began to practice in New York City. An admission at the New York Supreme Court followed in 1954. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

He was in a by-election on 20 February 1962 at the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Lester Holtzman. Then he ran in 1964 in the eighth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he stepped on 4 January 1965, the successor of Victor Anfuso. He was re-elected nine times in a row. In 1982 he was elected the seventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rosenthal met on 4 January 1983, the successor of Joseph Patrick Addabbo, however, died on the same day. His body was then interred in the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont -.