Stanley Howells Fuld (August 23, 1903 – July 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician from

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. He was Chief Judge of the

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from 1967 to 1973.

Life

Born in

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, Fuld was the son of Emanuel I. Fuld (a

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of the ''

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'') and Hermine (Frisch) Fuld. He graduated from

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in 1923, and received an LL.B. from

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in 1926. Fuld engaged in private practice until 1935, when he was hired as an investigator by

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, Special Prosecutor of Rackets in Manhattan and a schoolmate of Fuld's at Columbia. Fuld's specialty was developing new theories to prosecute racketeers, including Charles "Lucky" Luciano and

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district leader. In November 1937, Dewey was elected District Attorney of New York County, and appointed Fuld Head of the Indictment Bureau. From 1939 to 1943, he was Chief of the Appeals Bureau. Afterwards he resumed his private practice On April 25, 1946, Fuld was appointed by Dewey, now Governor, a judge of the

to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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. In November 1946, he was elected on the Republican ticket to a 14-year term, and re-elected on the Republican and

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tickets in

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, he was elected unopposed Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. In that capacity, after the

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was brutally suppressed in 1971, Governor

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invited him and four other state judges to appoint a citizens' committee to investigate the entire affair. He retired from the bench at the end of 1973 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years, and returned to private practice. Judge Fuld authored the majority opinions in ''Auten v. Auten'' and ''

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'', which are widely considered to be landmark cases in American choice of law revolution.

Personal life

On May 29, 1930, Fuld married Florence Geringer (d. 1975). After her death, he married Stella Rapaport. He died at his home in

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