Joseph E. Newburger
American judge (1853–1931)
Joseph Emanuel Newburger (October 21, 1853 – July 19, 1931) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from New York.
Life
Newburger was born on October 21, 1853 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Emanuel Newburger and Lottie Fuchs.
Newburger attended Columbia Law School, graduating from there with an LL.B. in 1874. He then practiced law until 1890. Active in Tammany Hall, he unsuccessfully ran for the New York State Assembly. He was elected judge of the City Court in 1890, a position he held for five years. He was then elected to the Court of General Sessions, and in 1905 he was elected as a Tammany candidate Justice of the New York Supreme Court. When his term expired in 1919, Tammany chief Charles F. Murphy refused to back his candidacy for re-election due to differences that developed between them. In response, Newburger's friends formed an independent group to support his re-election campaign, the Republicans chose him as their candidate, and he was re-elected by a plurality of 80,000. He retired in the end of 1923, when he reached 70 and the state's age limitation.
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