Irwin D. Davidson

Irwin Delmore Davidson ( born January 2, 1906 in New York City; † August 1, 1981 in New Rochelle, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. In the years 1955 and 1956 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Irwin Delmore Davidson was born about eight years before the outbreak of the First World War in New York City. He attended public schools. His Bachelor of Sciences he made in 1927 at the Washington Square College of New York University and his Bachelor of Laws in 1928 at the New York University Law School. After receiving his license to practice law in 1929, he began practicing in New York City. Davidson in 1935 as a consultant ( Counsel ) for the Legislative Bill Drafting Commission operates and 1936 as Special Advisor ( Special Counsel ) for the New York State Mortgage Commission. He was in 1936 elected to the New York State Assembly, where he served until his resignation in 1948. During this time he took part in the 1938 Constituent Assembly of New York, and served there as a secretary of the democratic leader. In 1948 he became a judge on the Court of Special Sessions in New York City - a post he held until his retirement in 1954, when he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1954 for the 84th Congress Davidson was in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. on January 4, 1955. He joined on 31 December 1956 by his congressional seat back.

We chose him in 1956 for a fourteen- year term as Judge of the Court of General Sessions in Manhattan. Between 1963 and 1974 he served at the New York Supreme Court, he settled in New Rochelle, where he died on 1 August 1981. His body was cremated and the ashes scattered in a seaplane over the long sound Iceland.