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  Halpern, Seymour
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NameSeymour Halpern
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Forest Hills, New York , United States
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Born November 19, 1913
DiedJanuary 10, 1997 (83 years)
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Infoborn in New York City November 19, 1913; graduate of Richmond Hill High School; attended Seth Low College of Columbia University, 1932-1934; newspaper reporter in New York and Chicago, 1931-1933; engaged in the insurance business; stafff assistant to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 1937; assistant to president of New York City Council, 1938-1940; member, State senate, 1941-1954; member, Temporary State Commission to Revise the Civil Service Laws, 1952-1954; member, Mayor?s Committee on Courts, 1956-1958; vice president and later chairman of the board, The Insurist Corporation of America, 1948-1959; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; died January 10, 1997.


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  11/03/1970 NY District 6 Won 77.28% (+54.55%)
  11/05/1968 NY District 6 Won 57.51% (+27.45%)
  11/08/1966 NY District 6 Won 59.05% (+29.61%)
  11/03/1964 NY District 6 Won 57.05% (+14.11%)
  11/06/1962 NY District 6 Won 63.32% (+26.64%)
  11/08/1960 NY District 4 Won 55.08% (+10.16%)
  11/04/1958 NY District 4 Won 52.56% (+5.13%)
  11/02/1954 NY District 6 Lost 45.51% (-8.98%)
  11/04/1952 NY State Senate 04 Won 64.14% (+35.33%)
  11/07/1950 NY State Senate 04 Won 60.79% (+29.97%)
  11/02/1948 NY State Senate 04 Won 58.81% (+25.96%)
  11/05/1946 NY State Senate 04 Won 71.79% (+47.94%)
  11/07/1944 NY State Senate 04 Won 61.30% (+27.69%)
  11/03/1942 NY State Senate 02 Won 53.23% (+6.47%)
  11/05/1940 NY State Senate 02 Won 48.26% (+0.84%)
  11/02/1937 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Lost 35.13% (-20.66%)
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