Adolph Lewis Sanger (October 8, 1842 – January 3, 1894) was a Jewish-American lawyer from New York.

Life

Sanger was born on October 8, 1842 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He moved to New York City, New York when he was eight. Sanger graduated from the

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with an A.M. in 1862. He then went to Columbia Law School, where he received an LL.B. in 1864 and an

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in 1865. While attending Columbia, he studied law with Benedict & Boardman, leading commercial lawyers in the city at the time. In 1865, he began practicing law with

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. A Democrat, he unsuccessfully ran for Judge of the Marine Court in 1881. In 1870, he was appointed a commissioner of the United States deposit funds. He was a New York presidential elector in the 1884 presidential election. In 1885, he was elected President of the

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. He was serving as Acting Mayor during the reception of the

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. In 1886, he began the first of three terms as a Commissioner of Education. In 1893, he became president of the

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. Sanger was a leader of B'nai B'rith, president of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, and vice-president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. He was an Executive Committee member of the

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, a director of the Purim Association and the Montefiore Home, President of the Mount Washington Collegiate Association, and superintendent of the Temple Emanu-El religious school. Sanger died at home from pneumonia on January 3, 1894. The funeral was held in Temple Emanu-El and officiated by Rabbi

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, who was aided by Rabbi

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and Rabbi

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. The honorary pallbearers included Mayor

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, School Commissioner

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, Police Commissioner James J. Martin, ex-Attorney General Simon W. Rosendale, Simon Wolf, Jacob Schiff,

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, and his law partner

. The funeral was also attended by, among other people, the Board of Aldermen (headed by George B. McClellan Jr.),

President Alexander S. Webb, Professor Richard Gotthiel, Professor

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, Tax Commissioner Joseph Blumenthal, ex-

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Theodore W. Myers, Assistant

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, Senator

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, Hugh O. Pentecost, Frederic R. Coudert,

Samuel Untermyer Samuel J. Untermyer (March 6, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a prominent American lawyer and civic leader. He is also remembered for bequeathing his Yonkers, New York estate, now known as Untermyer Park, to the people of New York State. Life S ...

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, Dr. Frederick de Sola Mendes, and delegates from various organizations he was involved in. He was buried in

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in Cypress Hills.

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External links

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The Political Graveyard
' 1842 births {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanger, Adolph L. 1894 deaths People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Lawyers from New York City City College of New York alumni Columbia Law School alumni 19th-century American lawyers Jewish American attorneys Politicians from Manhattan New York City Council members New York (state) Democrats 1884 United States presidential electors American Reform Jews 19th-century American Jews Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) Burials at Salem Fields Cemetery