Benjamin F. Feinberg

Benjamin Franklin Feinberg (October 23, 1888 Malone, Franklin County, New York - February 6, 1959) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Majority Leader of the New York State Senate from 1944 to 1949.

Life

He lived at Plattsburgh.

He was a Republican member of the New York State Senate from 1933 to 1949, and was Majority Leader from 1944 to 1949. In 1949, he sponsored the Feinberg Bill, an act to purge fellow traveler and Communist teachers from the State public-school system. The bill required the Regents of the State School Board to draw up a list of all subversive organizations. Membership in such organizations was sufficient grounds for summary removal. The regents were also empowered to dismiss school employees for the "utterance of any treasonable or seditious word...or the doing of any treasonable or seditious act..." regardless of their affiliations.

He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1938. On March 30, 1949, he was appointed Chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission.

He was an alternate delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention, and a delegate to the 1944 and 1948 Republican National Conventions.

ources

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/feickert-fellman.html] Political Graveyard
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,800101,00.html] The Feinberg Bill in TIME Magazine on April 11, 1949