LC control no. | n 86114201 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981 |
Variant(s) | Celler, Emanuel, 1888- |
Birth date | 1888-05-06 |
Death date | 1981-01-15 |
Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
Place of death | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Law United States--Politics and government |
Affiliation | United States. Congress. House |
Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators |
Found in | NUCMC 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) |
Associated language | eng |
Invalid LCCN | n 88222539 |