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From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County , the borough of Manhattan . relishes taking down hotshots", "Robert Morgenthau Gets Witchy About Leslie Crocker Snyder", Morgenthau, Manhattan Prosecutor Since 1961, Won't Run Again, "Long Island's & NYC's News Source - Newsday", "Manhattan District Attorney Endorses a Candidate to Succeed Him", "Statement and Return Report for Certification General Election 2009 11/03/2009 New York County All Parties and Independent Bodies District Attorney New York", "Morgenthau, 90, Lands at Hard-Charging Wachtell Lipton", "Legendary Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau dies aged 99", Mark David Chapman tells his version of John Lennon slay, "Court Case Nudges Goetz Out of Cocoon;Subway Gunman Back in Spotlight", Preppie killer Robert Chambers pleads guilty to selling cocaine, assaulting cop, Prosecutor: Drop all convictions in Central Park jogger case, Tyco Execs Found Guilty: Kozlowski, Swartz Convicted For Looting Company Of $600 Million. 333 1000 666 333 1000 0 610 0 After Tufts he went to the Harvard Business School. endobj Anyone can read what you share. He remained in that office during both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. His grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and his father, Henry Morgenthau Jr., was secretary of the treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a family friend. Morgenthau was born into a prominent New York family. He told the Associated Press he was retiring because I looked at my birth certificate, and I said, Its about time.. Failed to remove flower. As a defense lawyer in Westchester, Warhit almost always included in his closing arguments how Morgenthau impressed upon his prosecutors that their ultimate goal was not to win convictions. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. His first wife, the former Martha Pattridge, died of cancer in 1972. The bride, a staff assistant at the Brearley School, graduated from the Madeira School and Vassar College. However, Morgenthau insisted that convictions werent everything. /CapHeight 500 `T|HEiY> f %=%3k,1ow+B3roK8w?Yz@,d\RL!k6~OQnY(%fh43e ;?+D'B_7RQa7z*Ji$CR } Q*b|VRxWhbcftW ,{&2,+5K^N#EH &/@o@b|/7`~ozG1xTlAx tD4hU$?z^_sX!SMJfDaK9!t_m1O'KF;&hv5uu,%saM:U?1zqK6q?q]QRQ,]k mg4w{0T&'q_^km@`Iue7/m~Q}pN=uW##'} \mj\`yC35[d3 &f{'n3NApq. "Mr. Morgenthau was one of the best known and probably one of the most respected prosecutors in the United States,"he said. They win by justice being done. But he started this organization that gives cows to Armenian families in the countryside. In 2005, at age 86, Morgenthau was elected for the eighth and last time, turning back a challenge from Leslie Crocker Snyder, a popular former state judge. [43][44][45][46][47] They raised their children in the Jewish faith. Aborn For Manhattan DA or Morgenthau Forever? 576 604 576 576 576 576 576 520 Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? /BaseFont /DDACTR+MicrosoftSansSerif,Bold If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. IAPD provides information on Investment Adviser firms regulated by the SEC and/or state securities regulators Among prominent figures who served in the office was the late John F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Snyder, who ran against him in 2005. Morgenthaus office also prosecuted the mob boss John Gotti and former Tyco chief executive L Dennis Kozlowski, convicted of fraud and larceny in a case seen as an emblem of corporate excess. He insisted that his name be pronounced Morgenthaw, not Morgenthow, the latter being the German way. And this kid dressed up in a suit comes up to me and says, Welcome to our school! Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. The Morgenthau family is one of robustly august American lineage. Partridge started his career in the youth system at Reading progressing through the academy as under-18's captain, he went on to sign a professional one-year contract in July 2012. [15], Morgenthau won the Democratic primary with 59% of the vote, to Snyder's 41%. 279 576 353 756 390 576 604 0 ", Morgenthau said his father "considered Fishkill Farms to be his home, and wanted to be sure that it continued as a working farm. 687 630 576 576 576 576 576 576 Photo by Armen Verdian. 909 520 576 576 576 576 248 248 666 666 666 666 666 666 1000 722 Comes here a lot. 333 333 365 556 833 833 833 610 He was elected to a full term in 1977 and was re-elected for seven terms. He was not opposed in a general election from 1985 to 2005. Its designed to help the families feed themselves., Bob also met Hayk Piloyan, who Is by himself a fantastic story. /Flags 32 1 0 obj He did a sort of shuttle diplomacy between the German ambassador and the Turkish leaders. Her late grandfather, Junius T. Moore, was the founder and president of Ferro Products. Morgenthau and his supporters claimed that replacing him would disrupt his work on vital cases,[citation needed] and that Nixon might be seeking to prevent Morgenthau from pursuing investigations that would prove embarrassing to the President or his friends. As for Henry, upon arrival he spoke no English, but he was so motivated that by the age of 18 he had already graduated with a Bachelors degree from City College and from Columbia Law School two years later. In 1963, his office successfully prosecuted the former Harvard law school dean James M Landis for tax evasion. ?j(*y|-? 'F4mBL@ G Z`X. 8TK[1)w{dnqTV|m#e]c3-)I,18}lR2paI Vance, who had spent several years as an assistant district attorney under Morgenthau, took over in 2010. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1948 and in 1961 was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York by President John F. Kennedy. 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 610 277 277 556 277 889 610 610 He was an iconic figure.. The war had a disastrous effect on Lazaruss business: in 1862, due to the American embargo on tobacco, German cigar exports ceased. /FontName /DDACTR+MicrosoftSansSerif 333 333 389 583 277 333 277 277 Andrew Cuomo's office. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. In 1911, by the time he was in his mid-50s, Henry decided to leave the business world and enter public service by working for the government. He was married to Lucinda Franks and Martha Pattridge. To use this feature, use a newer browser. 277 333 474 556 556 889 722 237 Morgenthau, who served as U.S. Attorney for New York's southern district during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, returned to law enforcement as Manhattan's top state prosecutor in 1974 and didn't leave for 35 years, with his office handling around 100,000 criminal cases yearly. The prosecutors job is to protect the public and to administer the laws, Morgenthau once said, deriding district attorneys who collected convictions like notches on a gun.. You can always change this later in your Account settings. He wrote a book, says Bob, referring to the one titled Ambassador Morgenthaus Story. And its really fascinating because of the interplay. Morgenthau said 57 members of organized crime were convicted and 82 former assistant district attorneys went on to become judges. [3] In the general election, he was once again the candidate for all political parties in the election, having been nominated by the Democrats, Republicans, and the Working Families Party. Her father is a vice president of the Ferro Products Corporation, a fabricator of structural steel, and executive vice president of Industrial Constructors, both in Charleston, W. Va. While well-regarded, he was after all a Democrat, thought to harbor political aspirations. 666 666 666 666 277 277 277 277 His childhood reflected his lineage. Career. Robert Morgenthau, a World War II Navy hero best known as Manhattan's legendary district attorney, and who worked as a practicing lawyer and philanthropist through his final days, died Sunday.. In April, Franks and Morgenthau were honored by the Vassar Haiti Projectfor their achievements in the fields of international social justice and literature. Youre Jewish. Mrs. Morgenthau had been president of the ParentTeach ers Association of the Field stone Lower School and a di rector of the Riverdale Neigh borhood and Library Associa tion. >> 489 571 353 576 576 500 556 556 Rolison said Morgenthau "created so many different and innovative ways to help investigate crimes. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Robert Morris Morgenthau I found on Findagrave.com. /FirstChar 30 It's not my place and I don't intend to, but I am enjoying speaking for Bob.. Resigns as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York after Richard Nixon announces that he's fired him. He leaves behind deep local roots and a long legacy of public service. /Type /Font << cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. With their business effectively extinguished, in 1865 the Morgenthaus decided to move to New York, where there was already a substantial and well-established German Jewish community. 333 333 389 583 277 333 277 277 The vice chairman of NEF is now Johnson Garrett, a great-grandson of Cleveland Dodge. << From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County (the borough of Manhattan), having previously served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York throughout much of the 1960s on the appointment of John F. Kennedy. endobj Tall and distinguished in appearance, he was the model for the avuncular prosecutor Adam Schiff, played by Steven Hill on the long-running television series Law & Order. << Hewas an attorney for a private-practice firm in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy, an acquaintance, appointed him U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Snyder tried without success to turn Morgenthau's age and lengthy tenure into campaign issues. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. /Widths [ Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Mrs. Martha Pattridge Mar genthau, wife of Robert M. Morgenthau, former United State Attorney and former Deputy Mayor, died yesterday in Memorial Hospital for Can cer and Allied Diseases. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. /Flags 32 On white-collar crime, his office reached a $300 million settlement with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. in 2003; the banks' payments settled charges accusing them of helping Enron Corp. manipulate its financial statements and mislead investors. 297 297 742 742 797 797 797 797 The next year, the new president named him to the prestigious post of U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the nation's busiest such office. Dodge brought together a group of American businessmen and they started the Near East Foundation. << [/PDF /Text /ImageC] This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. The New York Times agreed that "three decades is more than enough time for any executive to accomplish his or her mission," but that endorsement did not help Snyder overcome his advantage at the polls. His first wife, the former Martha Pattridge, died of cancer in 1972. Before going into diplomatic service, Henry Morgenthau Sr. had made a fortune in real estate, and became a strong financial backer of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson. Among prominent figures in the office were the late John F Kennedy Jr and the supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor. 297 297 576 576 576 576 576 576 556 556 500 389 279 389 583 0 In 2009 he announced he would not seek reelection and joined the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in January 2010. [3] After his defeat by the incumbent Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Morgenthau was reappointed U.S. Attorney and served in that position for the remainder of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.[6]. Retired state Court of Appeals Justice Albert Rosenblatt, who served as Dutchess County assistant district attorney, district attorney and county judge from 1964-1981, was alongtime friend. He was previously married to Lucinda Franks and Martha Pattridge. /LastChar 255 He liked the McIntosh; I am very fond of the Macoun.". In his twenty-five years in office, he supervised 3.5 million cases, including the high profile trials of subway vigilante Bernard Goetz; the Central Park "Preppie Killer" Robert Chambers; the Central Park Jogger case; the Bank of Credit and Commerce International fraud investigation; grifters Sante and Kenny Kimes; Tyco executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz; Tupac Shakur; and John Lennon's murderer, Mark Chapman. Morgenthau was a 53-year-old widowed father-of-five when met his second wife, 26-year-old reporter Lucinda Franks, the following year. Morgenthau left office in 2009, throwing his support to his eventual successor, Cy Vance. Morgenthau was incredibly frustrated. /FontFile2 10 0 R 333 1000 556 333 943 0 500 666 /Descent 211 His stepmother, Lucinda Franks Morgenthau, is a writer and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University and was formerly a reporter with The New York Times. Associated Addresses 18 Dodge Hall, New York, NY 10027 4682 Dodgewood Rd, Bronx, NY 10471 97 Clarence D Lane Rd, Windham, NY 12496 Show More (+) When Morgenthau did decide to retire, he backed Cyrus Vance Jr. for district attorney. Robert Morgenthau, Self: 60 Minutes. 777 722 722 722 722 666 666 610 To this day The Near East Foundation (NEF), still in existence, does quite a lot for Armenians, but it also helps other displaced communities as well. In addition to jailing Goetz in the 1984 wounding of four black youths who tried to rob him on a subway train, Morgenthau's notable convictions included a crack dealer who murdered the son of AOL Time-Warner head Gerald Levin; the murderous mother-and-son grifter team, Sante and Kenneth Kimes Jr.; and seven youths who killed a Utah tourist in a subway mugging in 1990. His grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Up in smoke: from silk, to cigars, to New York City. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Try again later. Never made any money on it.. Morgenthau died at Manhattans Lenox Hill hospital after a short illness, his wife Lucinda Franks told the New York Times. /Descent 211 5 0 obj Mrs. Morgenthau was born in Wayzata, Minn., and gradua ted in 1941 from Smith Col lege. 630 0 0 242 242 353 353 370 Burial. He graduated from New Lincoln School, Deerfield Academy, and Amherst College prior to enlisting in the Navy during World War II. Robert M. Morgenthau Biography | HowOld.co Robert M. Morgenthau Biography American lawyer, District Attorney for New York County, New York Robert Morris Morgenthau (/mrn/ MORG-n-thaw; July 31, 1919:- July 21, 2019) was an American lawyer. From that emerged a national reputation that extended beyond the courthouse. << /FontName /Arial [9], Morgenthau was criticized in the press for his conduct in the wake of a major police corruption scandal. Morgenthau then launched his first successful run for public office. Oops, we were unable to send the email. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. He reached out to his friends, one of whom was Cleveland Dodge, says Bob. I keep my assistant district attorney badge from the time I worked for Mr. Morgenthau on my desk as a daily reminder of his unrelenting pursuit of justice. A look at the Morgenthau family's contributions to the Hudson Valley and beyond. They married in 1977 and had two children. Morgenthau launched his first successful run for public office. He was eventually forced out of office at the end of 1969. 333 556 556 500 556 556 277 556 /FontDescriptor 7 0 R << I met a guy, Armen Verdian. The District Attorney's Office was high profile. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. Robert Morgenthau was born on July 31, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. His first wife, the former Martha Pattridge, died of cancer in 1972. Robert Morgenthau Biography. Drag images here or select from your computer for Robert Morris Morgenthau memorial. Retires as Manhattan district attorney after 35 years. His passing prompted response and remembrances from friends, politicians, journalists and others. Make sure that the file is a photo. "[17][18] He was succeeded in office by Cyrus Vance Jr., a prosecutor under Morgenthau and the son of former President Jimmy Carter's secretary of state Cyrus Vance. Robert Morgenthau was born on July 31, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. There was a problem getting your location. [49], In 1977, he married Lucinda Franks, an author who in 1971 won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. /CapHeight 500 He tried unsuccessfully again to become the Democratic nominee for governor and returned to private practice. 722 722 777 777 777 777 777 583 Morgenthau's grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was a wealthy investor and ambassador to Turkey under President Woodrow Wilson. The United States wont help. They had 5 children. Morgenthau officially endorsed Vance on June 25. His office reaches $300 million settlement with banks in relation to Enron Corp. Convicts Tyco Corporation's CEO and CFO on 22 counts. >> He tried to get my great-grandfather to bring in the Americans on the German side. Bob pauses. Robert Morris Morgenthau (/mrn/ MORG-n-thaw; July 31, 1919 - July 21, 2019) was an American lawyer. Appointed as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1961 by friend and then-President John F. Kennedy. /Subtype /TrueType To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Cuomo was one of several high-profile assistant district attorneys to work under him. His father served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman; and his grandfather served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Morgenthau's paternal grandmother was born in Montgomery, Alabama. His crime-fighting strategies also played an important role in facilitating New York Citys remarkable decline in homicides and violent crime and its current status as Americas safest big city, Vance said in a statement. 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