Robert F. Wagner
Robert Ferdinand Wagner ( born June 8, 1877 in Nastaetten, Hesse -Nassau, now Rhineland -Palatinate, † May 4, 1953 in New York City ) was an American politician. The German-born represented the New York State in the Senate of the United States.
Life
Robert Wagner was born as the youngest of nine children. He and his family came in 1885 in the United States, where the eight- year-old in New York City attended the school. Unable to speak a word of English, he learned quickly added. Since his family lived in poverty, had to Wagner to go to work early, worked as a newspaper vendor or as an assistant in a grocery store. These childhood shaped him:
"My boyhood was a pretty rough passage. I came through it, yes. But did what luck, luck, luck! Think of the others! "
" My childhood was a pretty hard phase. I've done it, yes. But that was luck, luck, fortune! Think of the others! "
In 1898 he received his degree from the City College of New York, so that he then matriculated at Columbia University. Here he studied law and was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 1900. He joined Tammany Hall at, the organization of the New York Democrat and then became a member of the Democratic Party.
His first public office Wagner from 1905, when he became the candidate of his party in the New York State Assembly, the Chamber of Deputies of the State of New York moved. In 1908 he was elected to the Senate from New York, where he practiced from 1909 to 1918 a mandate. From 1911 to 1914 he was President there per tempore and majority floor leader. After the governor of New York, William Sulzer, in October 1913 was forced to resign in the wake of an impeachment, took Martin H. Glynn, the previous Vice- Governor, whose official duties. Glynn then nominated Wagner as his lieutenant governor. So it was that Wagner to his work in the New York Senate and from October 1913 to December 1914 was parallel Lieutenant Governor of New York.
Wagner's career led him in 1919 as a judge on the New York Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, where he worked until 1926. In the same year, he ran successfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate and was able to displace the Republican incumbent James Wolcott Wadsworth. Robert Wagner, who took office on March 4, 1927 was re-elected three times in a row. In 1944 he was a delegate at the conference in Bretton Woods ( New Hampshire), on which the Bretton Woods system was decided. Also came under his as well, under the leadership of Edith Nourse Rogers Congressman from Massachusetts in 1939, the Wagner- Rogers Bill for ratification. The law stipulated that 20,000 Jewish children were allowed to flee under 14 years of Germany and enter the United States. Domestically was Senator Wagner, who was among the close friends of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal promoted. In particular, he sponsored the Wagner Act, with the workers the right was granted to form unions and wages and working conditions to negotiate collectively.
Due to a heart condition, Wagner drew on 28 June 1949 as a senator back into private life. He died four years later, in May 1953 in New York and was 75 years old. It was no longer permitted him to see how a year later, in 1954, his son Robert ( 1910-1991 ) as mayor of New York was chosen. He remained there until 1965. His grandson Robert Ferdinand Wagner III ( 1944-1993 ) was in the 1970 Member of the City Council of New York.