11 Jewish Congressmen to Sit in Next House; Senatorial Candidates Defeated

A number of Jews were elected to national, state and local offices throughout the country.

There will, however, be no Jewish representatives in the United States Senate as the two Jewish candidates for Senatorial office were defeated.

George Z. Medalie, of New York, United States Attorney for the Southern District, was defeated by Senator Robert F. Wagner, while Gilbert Bettman of Cincinnati, Attorney General of Ohio, likewise suffered defeat.

In New York City, Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the American Jewish Congress, a candidate for the Supreme Court Bench on the Independent Judges Ticket, was defeated despite a valiant last minute campaign launched by leading liberals as a protest against the bi-partisan endorsement by both parties of the candidacies

of Senator Samuel Hofstadter and Aron Steuer, both of whom were elected.

There are eleven Jewish Congressmen in all in the new House of Representatives as against eight in the last House. Five Jews will represent New York State in the House of Representatives. They are Emanuel Celler, Samuel Dickstein, William I. Sirovich, T. A. Peyser and Sol Bloom. T. A. Peyser, Democrat, will serve his first term in Congress.

A number of Jews were elected to the New York State Senate and Assembly. Partial returns list the following victors: For the State Senate; P. M. Kleinfeld, George Blumberg, S. Mandelbaum, Albert Wald, J. S. Berg and B. F. Feinberg. Mr. Blumberg, a Democrat, and Mr. Feinberg, a Republican, will be serving their first terms.

Elected as Assemblymen are: A. D. Schanzer, D.; J. Schwartzwald, D.; J. P. Nathanson, D.; I. Steingut, D,; A. M. Cohen, D.; L. Farbstein, D.; S. S. Streit, D.; W. Schwartz, D.; M. Alterman, D.; S. A. Hyman, D., and B. M. Mittler, D.