Charles S. Adler
Charles S. Adler (May 9, 1862 – April 5, 1911) was a Jewish-American politician from New York. Life. Adler was born on May 9, 1862, in New York City, New York. He initially worked as an office boy and later became a confidential man and commercial traveller of a business firm. A resident of the Lower East Side, he was a tailor's apprentice as a boy and devised a machine for cutting cloth which shops all over the Lower East Side used. In 1894, Adler was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican , representing the New York County 3rd District. He served in the Assembly in 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, and 1902. In the 1902 United States House of Representatives election, he was a congressional candidate for New York's 9th congressional district. He lost the election to Henry M. Goldfogle. In 1903, he was appointed Port Warden of the Port of New York. In the 1906 United States House of Representatives election, he again ran as the Republican candidate in the 9th congressional district, but he again lost the election to Goldfogle. In the 1908 United States presidential election, he  was a Presidential elector for William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman. Adler was a member of the Freemasons and the Elks. He was Jewish. Adler died at home on April 5, 1911. After a funeral service in Temple Rodeph Sholom, he was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Cypress Hills.