1. Leo Leous Isacson was a New York attorney and politician.
18 Facts About Leo Isacson
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Leo Isacson won a 1948 special election to the United States House of Representatives from New York's twenty-fourth district as the candidate of the American Labor Party in what The New York Times called "a test of Truman-[versus]-Wallace strength" with regard to the upcoming US presidential elections and a "test today of the third-party movement headed by Henry A Wallace".
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Leo Isacson was born on April 20,1910, in Manhattan, New York City, New York to a Jewish family.
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Leo Isacson attended the public schools, then graduated from New York University in 1931 and New York University School of Law in 1933.
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In 1936, Leo Isacson became a member at the founding of the American Labor Party.
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On February 23,1948, The New York Times was still analyzing the election in an article whose headline read "Leo Isacson's Victory Is Aid to Wallace in Major States" with the subtitle "Adds Strength to Third-Party Movement for Presidency, A Survey Discloses".
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Quill, who had supported Leo Isacson, "denied that Communists had won that election".
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Leo Isacson served from February 17,1948, to January 3,1949.
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Leo Isacson opposed the Marshall Plan and the peacetime draft, and was one of three congressmen to oppose legislation to increase the size of the Air Force.
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Leo Isacson pushed for immediate recognition of the State of Israel.
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Leo Isacson changed the situation for fellow ALP New York Representative Vito Marcantonio.
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Leo Isacson joined fellow New York ALP representative Vito Marcantonio and Democrats in voting unsuccessfully against an "unprecedented" $200,000 appropriation to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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In September 1948, Leo Isacson stumped for Wallace in New York City with fellow ALP candidates Marcantonio, Irma Lindheim, and Lee Pressman.
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Leo Isacson declared that the Taft-Hartley Act was passed with the help of a majority of Democratic Representatives, that four out of five Democrats in Congress voted for the peacetime draft and for continuance of the Committee on Un-American Activities.
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In 1949 Leo Isacson made a second run for Borough President of the Bronx.
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Leo Isacson lived in Eastchester and became active in the Democratic Party.
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Leo Isacson died of cancer at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on September 21,1996.
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Leo Isacson was survived by his second wife, Violet Isacson, whom he married around 1990, and his daughter Dale.