John MacCrate

John MacCrate ( born March 29, 1885 in Dumbarton, Scotland, † June 9, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the years 1919 and 1920, the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The MacCrate family emigrated in 1893 to the United States and settled in Greenpoint ( Brooklyn ). John MacCrate attended public schools and the Commercial High School in Brooklyn. He graduated in 1906 at the Law Department of New York University. His admission to the bar he was in the same year and commenced practice in New York City. He ran in 1909 for both the New York State Assembly and for the Senate from New York. In 1916 and 1920 he attended the Republican National Convention as a delegate. MacCarte was nominated in the primaries for both the Democratic and the Republican Party and was at the end of 1918 as a Republican in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph V. Flynn on March 4, 1919. However, he resigned on December 30, 1920 by his Congress seat back. MacCrate 1920 was elected Judge of the New York Supreme Court for the Second District of New York and re-elected in 1934 and 1948. He was there until December 31, 1955 act, when he reached the age limit. During this time he was sitting in the years 1948 and 1949 in the Appeals Division ( Appellate Division ) of the Supreme Court. In the years 1956, 1957 and June 1958 he was Official Referee at the New York Supreme Court, he died on 9 June 1976 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Queens.