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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkRobert Ferdinand WAGNER
(1877-1953)
Senate Years of Service:
1927-1949Party: DemocratWAGNER, Robert Ferdinand,
a Senator from New York; born in Nastatten, Province Hessen-Nassau,
Germany, June 8, 1877; immigrated with his parents to the United
States in 1885 and settled in New York City; attended the public
schools; graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1898
and from New York Law School in 1900; admitted to the bar in 1900
and commenced practice in New York City; member, State assembly
1905-1908; member, State senate 1909-1918, the last eight years as
Democratic floor leader; chairman of the State Factory
Investigating Commission 1911-1915; delegate to the New York
constitutional conventions in 1915 and 1938; justice of the supreme
court of New York 1919-1926; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932, 1938 and 1944 and served
from March 4, 1927, until his resignation on June 28, 1949, due to
ill health; chairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-third
Congress), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-third and
Seventy-fourth Congresses), Committee on Banking and Currency
(Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); author of the
National Labor Relations Act (“Wagner Act”), that
created the National Labor Relations Board in 1935; delegate to the
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods
in 1944; died in New York City, May 4, 1953; interment in Calvary
Cemetery, Queens, New York City.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; Bryne, Thomas. “The Social Thought of Senator Robert
F. Wagner.” Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 1951;
Huthmacher, J. Joseph. Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of
Urban Liberalism. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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