Samuel Rabin (1905 – May 7, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was born in 1905 in

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. He graduated from

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, and in 1928 from

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. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in

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. In 1938, he married Florence Mittlemann, and they had two children. He entered politics as a Republican. He was a member of the

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(Queens Co., 8th D.) from 1945 to 1954, sitting in the 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th and

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s. In 1954, he was elected to the

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, and re-elected in 1968. From 1962 on, he sat on the Appellate Division (2nd Dept.), and Presiding Justice from 1971 on. In January 1974, he was appointed by Governor Malcolm Wilson to the

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, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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. In

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, he was designated by the Republican State Committee to run for one of the vacancies on the Court of Appeals but he declined to run, being already 69 years old, just one year short of the constitutional age limit. In 1975, he returned to the Appellate Division, and retired from the bench in 1981. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. He died on May 7, 1993, in

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. Rabin, who was

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, was buried in

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References

Sources

''The History of the New York Court of Appeals, 1932-2003''
by Bernard S. Meyer, Burton C. Agata & Seth H. Agata (page 29) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rabin, Samuel 1905 births 1993 deaths Judges of the New York Court of Appeals Cornell University alumni Jewish American people in New York (state) politics New York University School of Law alumni Lawyers from Queens, New York New York Supreme Court justices Members of the New York State Assembly 20th-century American Jews 20th-century New York state court judges Presiding justices of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department 20th-century members of the New York State Legislature