1. Dean Alfange was an American politician who held nominations and appointments from a number of parties, including the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York, of which he was a founding member.
Dean Alfange was a prominent liberal legal commentator who supported the notion of judicial activism and a Living Constitution.
Dean Alfange ran for a number of offices, including Governor of New York, where his candidacy split the liberal vote, allowing Thomas E Dewey to win the governorship.
Dean Alfange ran for the United States House of Representatives, but lost again.
Dean Alfange is well remembered for a short piece he wrote entitled either "An American's Creed" or simply "My Creed".
Dean Alfange was born Constantine Alflangi in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, to two ethnic Greek parents.
Dean Alfange's parents moved to New York in 1902, where they raised him in Utica, New York.
Dean Alfange received a juris doctor from Columbia University Law School and became a lawyer in Manhattan.
Dean Alfange was married to Thalia Perry, with whom he had one child, Dean Alfange Jr.
Dean Alfange received his degree from Columbia University Law School, and was admitted to the American Bar Association in 1925.
Dean Alfange criticized the United States Supreme Court for its treatment of New Deal programs, urging they adopt a more progressive attitude towards the policies.
Dean Alfange contended that the programs should not be evaluated solely on their legality, but on their possible moral and economic effects, as well as public perception at the time.
Later in his political career, Dean Alfange served as the Deputy New York State Attorney General.
Dean Alfange served as head of the American Labor Party for several years in the late 1930s.
Dean Alfange finishing in third place with 409,047 votes, or about 9.7 percent of votes cast.
Dean Alfange led a walkout against the American Labor Party in 1944, when pro and anti-Communist factions within the organization came into increased conflict.
Dean Alfange served until Hugh L Carey abolished the board in 1975.
Dean Alfange served in a number of activist and ethnic organizations, including heading the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association, an organization for the advancement of Greek-Americans.
Dean Alfange served as president of La Guardia Memorial House, a settlement house, for more than 40 years.
Dean Alfange headed the Zionist organization "Committee to Arm the Jewish State", a group that sought to end arms embargoes against Zionist groups working to create Israel before independence.
Dean Alfange served as the chairman of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, a group that sought to rescue victims of the then ongoing Holocaust.
Dean Alfange is remembered for a short statement he wrote in the 1950s entitled "An American's Creed" or simply "My Creed".