Mitchell May

Mitchell May ( * July 10, 1870 in Brooklyn, New York, † March 24, 1961 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1899 and 1901 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mitchell May was born about five years after the end of the civil war in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1892 he graduated from the Faculty of Law, Columbia University in New York City. His admission to the bar, he received the following year and then began practicing in Brooklyn. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1898 May was the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James R. Howe on March 4, 1899. Since he gave up for reelection in 1900, he retired after the March 3, 1901 out of the Congress.

Between 1906 and 1910 he sat in the Education Committee of New York City. Then he was in the years 1910 and 1911 as Deputy District Attorney in Kings County and worked in the years 1913 and 1914 as Secretary of State of New York. Between 1916 and 1921 he was a district judge in Kings County. On January 1, 1922, he was appointed to the New York Supreme Court - a position which he held until his resignation on December 31, 1940, when he reached the compulsory retirement age (mandatory retirement ). Then he resumed his activities as a lawyer. He died on March 24, 1961 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Valhalla Cemetery in Staten Iceland.