Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-11-11
JEWS ELECTED To-
HIGH OFFICES IN
VARIOUS STATES
Col. Herbert H. Lehman Led
Successful Campaign
for Democrats
BENJAMIN CARDOZA
N. Y. CHIEF JUSTICE
More Than Dozen Jews Will Sit
In Next Congress; SABBATH
Is Reelected
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency

New HOrk-Several prominent Jew
ish citizens of New York State were
elected to high Office as result of the
hotly contested election campaign
which ended with victory for the
Democratic ticket headed by Governor
Alfred f. Smith and United States
Senator Robert F. Wagner. Col. Her
bert II. Lehman was the campaign
manager for the Democratic party in
New York State. Rabbi Stephen 3.
Wise actively participated in the Dem
ocrntic campaign.
Heads Appeal Bench
Benjamin n. Cardoza. Democrat, was
elected Chief Judge of the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court, being
endorsed by both parties. Max s.
Levine, Democrat, was elected Judge
of the court of general sessions and
Alfred Frankenthaler, Democrat, JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, from the
First Distric tof Manhattan.
Five C0ngressn,en
Congressman Samuel Dickstein, Sol
Bloom and Emanuel Celler were re-
elected to Congress. DIR. W. ]. Sirovitz,
Democrat, defeated Representative
Nathan ID. Perlman, Republican, in the
Fourteenth Congressional District, by
majority of 500 votes. william w.
Cohen, Democrat, was elected to Con-
gress from the Seventeenth Congress
sional District. Abraham Greenberg
defeated Senator Courtland Nicoll, Re
publican. seeking reelection to the
State Senate, Senator Leonard R.
Lipowicz of Buffalo was reelected to
the State Senate.
SABBATH AND JACOBSTEIN
Chicago, Nov. So. T. AEON
gresham Adolph SABBATH Democrat,
was reelected for the thirteenth time
to represent the Fifth District in the
House of Representative.
Judge Henry Harner, Democrat,
was elected for the third time as Pro-
bate Judge of Cook County. Mitchell
Robin, Democrat, was elected prboate
county clerk. Joseph Shulman, Re-
publican, was reelected municipal
court judge and Samuel Heller was
elected judge of the mnicipal court.
Sidney Lyon, W. P. Weiss, E.
Schenkenberg, Henry Minsky, Louis
Beckman, J. jacobson, Otto Schoen-
man and Henry Eisenrsth were elect
ed to the state assembly.
OTTINGER ATTY. GENERAL
New York.-(J.T.A.)-Ta
of returns previously unreported gave
victory to Attorney General Albert
Ottinger, Republican candidate for
reelection in last Tuesdays balloting.
With only four small election districts
missing, Mr.. Ottinger had plurality
of 8,797 over Benjamin Stolz of Syra-
cuse, his Democratic opponent. The
missing districts are expected to in
crease Mr.. Ottinger's plurality
slightly.
Abraham Grenthal, Republican, was
elected to the New York State AS
sembly from the 10th Manhattan AS.
sembly district.
Rochester.-J.T.A.) = Representa-
tive Meyer Jacobstein, Democrat, was
reelected for the third consecutive
term in staonr Republican district.
CLEVELAND JUDGE
Cleveland, O.-U.T.A) - Samuel
H. Silbert was reelected to a six-yeal
term as Common Pleas Judge by tn,
greatest majority of any of the si'
Judges who were elected.
Silbert, as boy, sold papers il
Newark, N. j., to support his wild
owed mother and studied law in spar,
hours, later attending law school here
He now is a teacher in the law school