Saul S. Streit
polish-American lawyer and politician (1897–1983)
Saul S. Streit (May 5, 1897 – September 3, 1983) was a Polish-born Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York City.
Life
Streit was born on May 5, 1897, in Poland as the son of Jacob Streit and Bebe Baron. He immigrated to America in 1901.
Streit attended public school in New York City, New York, and Stuyvesant High School. He graduated from New York Law School in 1922, and by 1927 he was working as a lawyer with an office in the Flatiron Building. He was an assistant New York County District Attorney under Joab H. Banton. In 1926, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing the New York County 7th District. He served in the Assembly in 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, and 1936.
One of the more progressive members of the Tammany Hall delegation in the Assembly, Streit served as chairman of the joint legislative committee to investigate bondholders, stockholders, and creditors committees. In his first Assembly session, he introduced a bill passed and signed by Governor Al Smith to amend the Fraudulent Check Law in an attempt to reduce the number of frauds from passing worthless checks and voted with Republicans on a bill that made a seller of poison liquor guilty of first-degree manslaughter.
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