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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "1st Jewish New York Governor Candidate" Albert Ottinger Hand Written Note on 3X5 Card Dated 1936.
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Albert
E. Ottinger (September 10, 1878 – January
13, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician.
Ottinger was born in Manhattan,
New York City, the son of Moses Ottinger and Amelia Gottlieb
Ottinger. He graduated from New York University Law School in
1898 and became an attorney in New York City He was a member of the New York State Senate (18th District)
in 1917 and 1918; and then an assistant attorney general of the
United States. As such, Ottinger ruled that the U.S. Congress could
grant independence to the Philippines if
it wished, since the Philippines were an "insular possession" and
therefore to be distinguished from the United States' states and territorial
possessions. He
was New York
State attorney general from 1925 to 1928, elected in 1924 and 1926. During his second term, he was the
only Republican who held state office, and was responsible for closing down the
notorious "bucket shops" on Wall Street. He was a
delegate to the 1928 and 1932
Republican National Conventions In 1928, while the Democratic
Party nominated New York Governor Al Smith for
the presidency, the first time a Catholic from
a major party was running for that office, the Republican Party of
New York nominated Ottinger for governor, the in New York history. The Democratic Party nominated Franklin D.
Roosevelt for governor, and Herbert
Lehman, also a Jew, as the candidate for lieutenant governor of New York.
On the national ticket, Herbert
Hoover won by a landslide over Al Smith, the latter's religion
clearly a national issue. The gubernatorial contest, however, was one of the closest
in New York history. Against the national Republican trend, Roosevelt won by
only 25,000 votes, less than 1% of the four million ballots cast. At the end of his term as New
York state's attorney general, Ottinger summed up his record as follows:
"Hammer, hammer, hammer, at every manner and means of fraud and
dishonesty, the prevention and assertion of which the Legislature has assigned
to the Attorney General." Ottinger
suffered a heart attack and died in New York City on January 13, 1938.[3] He
was buried at Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens, New York.
