1. Henry Ellenbogen was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving from 1933 to 1938.
11 Facts About Henry Ellenbogen
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Henry Ellenbogen was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, then in Austria-Hungary, and attended the University of Vienna Law School.
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Henry Ellenbogen immigrated to the United States and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Henry Ellenbogen was appointed as arbitrator and public panel chairman by the National War Labor Board and the Third Regional War Labor Board in cases involving labor disputes.
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Henry Ellenbogen wrote numerous articles on economic, social, and legal problems.
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Henry Ellenbogen married Rachel "Rae" Savage, and they had two daughters, author Naomi Feigelson Chase and Judith Specter.
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Henry Ellenbogen was first elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress.
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Henry Ellenbogen was re-elected to the Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses and served until his resignation in 1938, having been elected judge of the common pleas court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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Henry Ellenbogen was reelected as a judge in November 1947 and again in 1957 and served as presiding judge, 1963 to 1966.
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Henry Ellenbogen retired and was a resident of Miami, Florida, until his death there.
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Henry Ellenbogen is buried in West View Cemetery of the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh.