Irving Lehman - Biography

Irving Lehman (January 28, 1876 - September 22, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1940 until his death in 1945.

Biography

He was born on January 28, 1876 in New York City to Mayer Lehman (d. 1897) and Babette Newgass. Herbert H. Lehman was his brother. He graduated with an LL.B. from Columbia University Law School in 1897. On June 26, 1901, he married Sissie Straus, the daughter of Nathan Straus.

He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1909 to 1923, elected in 1908 on the Democratic ticket, and re-elected in 1922 on the Democratic and Republican tickets.

In 1923, he was elected on the Democratic and Republican tickets to a 14-year term on the New York Court of Appeals, and re-elected in 1937. In 1939, he was elected Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals on the Democratic, Republican and American Labor tickets, and remained on the bench until his death in office.

He died of a heart ailment on September 22, 1945 at his home on Ridge Street in Port Chester, New York. He was buried at the Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.

External links

• [1] Political Graveyard (giving wrong year ["1900"] of beginning of Supreme Court tenure)
• [2] Nominated to Supreme Court, with short bio, in NYT on October 19, 1908
• [3] Listing of Court of Appeals judges, with portrait (gives erroneously death date as September 21, all other sources give September 22)