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Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981

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Personal name headingCeller, Emanuel, 1888-1981
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Variant(s)Celler, Emanuel, 1888-
Birth date1888-05-06
Death date1981-01-15
Place of birthBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityLaw United States--Politics and government
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House
Profession or occupationLawyers Legislators
Found inNUCMC data from Univ. Ga. lib., R.B. Russell Mem'l Lib. for Mitchell, E. Papers, 1958-1960 (Emanuel Celler)
NUCMC files (Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981)
WWA, 1974/75 (Celler, Emanuel, 1888-; congressman; s. Henry H. & Josephine (Muller) C.; m. Stella B. Baar; lawyer, Weisman, Celler, Spelt, Modlin & Wertheimer, Brooklyn; org. Brooklyn Nat'l Bank; memb. 68-91 Congresses; author, Fed'l Register Act, Trade-Zone Act, etc.; res.: Brooklyn)
Members of Congress, 1789-1982 (Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981; Democratic congressman from N.Y., 1923-1973)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, July 29, 2013 (Celler, Emanuel (1888-1981); a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 6, 1888; graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1910, and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1912; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in New York City; Government appeal agent on the draft board during the First World War; delegate to the Democratic State conventions from 1922 until 1932; delegate and member of Platform Committee of Democratic National Conventions from 1942 through 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the twenty-four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1973); chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Ninety-second Congresses), Special Committee on Seating of Adam Clayton Powell (Ninetieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; member of the Commission on Revision of the Federal Appellate Court System, 1973-1975; resumed the practice of law; resided in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he died January 15, 1981)
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