Robert F. Wagner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert F. Wagner

American politician

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1877

Place of Birth: Nastätten, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 04-May-1953

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Robert F. Wagner

  • Robert Ferdinand Wagner I (June 8, 1877 – May 4, 1953) was a German American politician.
  • He was a Democratic U.S.
  • Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949. Born in Prussia, Wagner migrated with his family to the United States in 1885.
  • After graduating from New York Law School, Wagner won election to the New York State Legislature, eventually becoming the Democratic leader of the state senate.
  • Working closely with fellow New York City Democrat Al Smith, Wagner and Smith embraced reform, especially to the benefit of their core constituency, the working class.
  • They built a coalition for these reforms that embraced unions, social workers, some businessmen, and numerous middle-class activists and civic reform organizations across the state.
  • Wagner left the senate in 1918, and served as a justice of the New York Supreme Court until his election to the Senate in 1926. As Senator, Wagner was a leader of the New Deal Coalition putting special emphasis on supporting the labor movement.
  • He was a close associate and strong supporter of President Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt.
  • He sponsored three major laws: the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Social Security Act of 1935, and the Housing Act of 1937.
  • Wagner resigned from the Senate in 1949 due to ill health, and died in 1953.
  • His son Robert F.
  • Wagner Jr.
  • was mayor of New York from 1954 through 1965.

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