Albert C. Cohn (December 20, 1885 – January 8, 1959) was a

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Justice and the father of Roy Cohn. He was influential in Democratic Party politics.

Biography

Cohn was born and raised in

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; married Dora ( Marcus; 1892–1967) in 1924, when he was the First

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for Bronx County. Their only son, renowned attorney Roy Cohn, was born in 1927. Cohn was inducted as a justice of the New York Supreme Court into Part III of Bronx Supreme Court in April 1929. A 1931 decision by Cohn stripped control of amateur boxing in New York from the

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(AAU) and placed it under control of the

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. In April 1937, Governor Herbert H. Lehman promoted Cohn to a five-year term on the

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, where his fellow Justices included Irwin Untermyer. He spearheaded a program for accreditation by the

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for his alma mater,

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, starting in 1947, which was successful, in 1954. He died on January 8, 1959, in New York City.

References

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