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

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Justice and the father of

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. He was influential in

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politics.

Biography

He was born on December 20, 1885, and married Dora Marcus (1892–1967) in 1924 when he was the First

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for Bronx County. His son

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

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promoted Cohn to a five-year term on the

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, where his fellow Justices included

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. 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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