Everything about Moses M Weinstein totally explained
Moses M. Weinstein (
July 8,
1912 New York City -
November 30,
2007 Pembroke Pines,
Broward County, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician.
Name
He was born
Morris Weinstein without middle initial. A playbill for a production at
Brooklyn College added erroneously the middle initial, and a mistaken inscription of his degree at
Brooklyn Law School changed Morris to Moses which name he adopted henceforth.
Life
He was the son of a tailor, and grew up on the
Lower East Side, Manhattan. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School at 15, but it took him seven years and a dozen jobs to work his way through college and law school.
In 1941, he married Muriel Marshall (d. 2006). They had three sons who all graduated from Brooklyn Law School too: Jeremy Weinstein, a New York Supreme Court justice, Jonathan Weinstein, and Peter Weinstein, a Circuit Court judge in Broward County, Fla.
In
World War II, he was an infantry corporal and fought in the
Battle of the Bulge.
He was a member from
Queens County of the
New York State Assembly from 1959 to 1969, was majority leader from 1965 to 1968, and was chosen
Speaker for the remainder of the term after the resignation of
Anthony J. Travia in the middle of the year.
He was Chairman of the Queens
Democratic Party from 1962 to 1969, and was majority leader of the
New York State Constitutional Convention of 1967.
In August 1968, Weinstein, who as Speaker was fourth in line for the governorship, became Acting Governor for 10 days when
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller,
Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson and
Senate Majority Leader Earl W. Brydges went to the
Republican National Convention in
Miami Beach, Florida.
Weinstein was an ally of
Mayor of New York Robert F. Wagner in the early 1960s and had a good relationship with Governor Rockefeller. Weinstein sponsored measures that created the
Urban Development Corporation and the Crime Victims Compensation Board, reformed
divorce and welfare laws, established a consumer bill of rights, increased aid for air-pollution controls and Regents scholarships, and promoted hospital expansion. He supported rent controls, veterans rights, aid to small businesses and antidiscrimination laws.
In 1969, he was elected to a 14-year term as a
New York State Supreme Court justice in Queens. In a 1973 case, acknowledging he might be violating the law, he vacated the three-year term of a woman convicted of selling drugs, noting that she'd terminal
cancer and less than a year to live.
In 1980, he was appointed to the
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, with jurisdiction over
Queens,
Brooklyn,
Staten Island and seven suburban counties. He participated in rulings that threw out unjust convictions, invalidated school financing based on property taxes and decided many other controversies. He left the bench in 1989 after reaching the mandatory retirement age.
He died at the Memorial Hospital in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
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