State senator Samuel Hofstadter, chairman of the Hofstadter legislative investigating committee, “will probably be the Republican party’s candidate for attorncy-general” in the 1932 state-wide election, Richard F. Warner, political writer for the New York Evening Post, declared yesterday. Senator Hofstadter, the only New York City Republican in the state senate, was the sponsor of the original bill for a legislative probe of New York City.
He first became known when he was a member of the assembly in 1925. Four years later he was elected to the senate. The Citizens’ Union has referred to him as “the city’s chief legislative asset.” As a special deputy at torney-general he successfully defended the constitutionality of the state kosher law.
If Mr. Hofstadter is nominated and elected attorney-general he will be the fifth Jew to have held this office. The other four were the late Judge Julius M. Mayer, Albert Rosendale, Carl Sherman and Albert Ottinger.
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