Everything about Robert F Wagner totally explained
Robert Ferdinand Wagner (
8 June 1877–
4 May 1953) was a
Democratic United States Senator from
New York from
1927 until
1949. He was born in
Nastätten, Province
Hesse-Nassau,
Germany, and immigrated with his parents to the
United States in
1885. His family settled in
New York City and Wagner attended the public schools. He graduated from the
College of the City of New York (now named
City College) in
1898 and from
New York Law School in
1900. He was admitted to the bar in 1900. He was the father of
Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who became mayor of
New York City.
Wagner commenced practice in New York City and was a member of the State Assembly (1905–1908), member of the State senate (1909–1918). In 1911, he was elevated to Majority Leader/President Pro Tempore and served in that capacity in the 1912 and 1913 sessions. Upon the elevation of Lieutenant Governor
Martin Glynn to the Governorship in October 1913 after the impeachment of Governor
William Sulzer, Wagner became acting Lieutenant Governor until the election of 1914. In January 1915, following the loss of the Senate by the Democrats, he became Minority Leader until his retirement in 1918. Also, during his time in the Senate, he served as chairman of the State Factory Investigating Committee (1911–1915). Wagner was delegate to the New York
constitutional conventions in 1915 and 1938, and justice of the supreme court of New York (1919–1926).
Senate career
Wagner was elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1926, and reelected in 1932, 1938, and 1944. He resigned on
June 28,
1949, due to ill health. He was unable to attend any sessions of the 80th or 81st Congress from 1947 to 1949 because of a heart ailment.
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) Wagner was the chairman of the
Committee on Patents in the
73rd Congress, of the
Committee on Public Lands and Surveys in the
73rd and
74th Congresses, and of the
Committee on Banking and Currency in the
75th through
79th Congresses. He was a delegate to the
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944.
His most important legislative achievements include the
National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933 and the
Wagner-Steagall Housing Act of 1937. After serving as chairman of the
National Labor Board and witnessing first-hand its problems, he introduced and won passage of the
National Labor Relations Act, or
Wagner Act, that created the
National Labor Relations Board in 1935. He also introduced the
Railway Pension Law, and cosponsored the
Wagner-O'Day Act, the predecessor to the
Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act.
Wagner and
Edward P. Costigan sponsored a federal anti-Lynching law. In 1935 attempts were made to persuade President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support the Costigan-Wagner Bill. However, Roosevelt refused to support a bill that would punish sheriffs who failed to protect their prisoners from lynch mobs. He believed that he'd lose the support of Southern Democrats in Congress and lose his entire New Deal program. There were 18 lynchings of blacks in the South in 1935, but after the threat of federal legislation the number fell to eight in 1936, and to two in 1939.
Death and legacy
Wagner was a Brother of Phi Sigma Kappa during his college years at the Zeta Chapter of the City College of New York.
After leaving the Senate, Mr. Wagner was a partner in the firm later known as
Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey.
Robert Wagner died in New York City and is interred in
Calvary Cemetery,
Queens,
New York City.
On
September 14,
2004, a portrait of Wagner, along with one of Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg, was unveiled in the Senate Reception Room. The new portraits joined a group of distinguished former Senators, including
Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster,
John C. Calhoun,
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and
Robert A. Taft. Portraits of this group of Senators, known as the "Famous Five", were unveiled on
March 12,
1959.
Robert Wagner's legacy continues to this day; there's a middle school named after him on the upper east side of Manhattan.
Robert Wagner wasn't a partner of Finley Kumble Wagner Underberg Manley Myerson & Casey (sic). This firm was formed long after he died. His son Robert Wagner, Jr. became a partner several years after he was Mayor of the City of New York. The last name in the firm wasn't Casey but rather Carey for former Governor Carey.
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