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Simon Wolfe Rosendale (June 23, 1842 – April 22, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician. Rosendale was the first Jew elected to a statewide elective office in New York. ==Life== He was born on June 23, 1842 in Albany, New York. He graduated from Barre Academy. Then he studied law at the office of Courtney & Cassidy in Albany. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1863, and became an assistant district attorney of Albany County, New York. In 1868, he was elected Recorder of Albany, and held that office for four years. From 1878 to 1881, he was Corporation Counsel of Albany. In 1881 he formed a partnership with Rufus Wheeler Peckham, and after Peckham's election to the state bench, he continued his law practice with Albert Hessberg. As a Democrat, he was New York State Attorney General from 1892 to 1893, elected in 1891 but defeated for re-election in 1893. In 1895, he published ''The Involution of Wampum as Currency: the Story Told By the Colonial Ordinances of New Netherland, 1641-1662''. Governor Theodore Roosevelt appointed him in 1899 to the State Board of Charities, a post he held for 18 years. In 1919, he was one of 31 prominent Jews who signed an Anti-Zionist Memorandum given to President Woodrow Wilson, to be presented to the Versailles Peace Conference, stating their opinion against the foundation of a Jewish state in Palestine.〔Full text of the memorandum in the (''Palestine Encyclopedia'' ), Rosendale is listed as signer no. 3〕 He died on April 22, 1937 in Albany, New York at age 94. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon W. Rosendale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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