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Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953

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Personal name headingWagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953
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Variant(s)Wagner, Robert Ferdinand, 1877-1953
Birth date18770608
Death date19530504
Place of birthNastätten (Germany)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
AffiliationNew York (State). Legislature. Assembly
New York (State). Legislature. Senate
New York (State). Supreme Court
United States. Congress. Senate
Profession or occupationLawyers Legislators--United States
Found inNUCMC data from Harry S. Truman Library for Keyserling, L.H. Papers, 1923-1987 (Robert F. Wagner; U.S. senator, 1933-37)
WwWA, 1951-1960 (Wagner, Robert Ferdinand; ex-senator; b. Hesse-Nassau, Germany, June 8, 1877; brought to U.S. in childhood; d. May 5, 1953)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, February 24, 2014 (Wagner, Robert Ferdinand (1877-1953); a Senator from New York; born in Nastatten, Province Hessen-Nassau, Germany, June 8, 1877; immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1885 and settled in New York City; attended the public schools; graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1898 and from New York Law School in 1900; admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in New York City; member, State assembly 1905-1908; member, State senate 1909-1918, the last eight years as Democratic floor leader; chairman of the State Factory Investigating Commission, 1911-1915; delegate to the New York constitutional conventions in 1915 and 1938; justice of the supreme court of New York, 1919-1926; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932, 1938 and 1944 and served from March 4, 1927, until his resignation on June 28, 1949, due to ill health; chairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-third Congress), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses), Committee on Banking and Currency (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); author of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), that created the National Labor Relations Board in 1935; delegate to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods in 1944; died in New York City, May 4, 1953; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York City)
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