Simon L. Adler, judge of the United States court for the western district of New York, died of a heart attack here today. He was sixty-six years old and unmarried.
Judge Adler was appointed to the bench in 1927 after serving for fifteen years in the State Assembly, where he had been Republican majority leader for many years. He was born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., on August 31, 1867, the son of Lewis and Anne Adler. He studied at the Rochester Free Academy and Cornell University, and received his law degree at Harvard in 1892.
Since that time he has been practicing law here. For seven years he practiced in New York City. While in that city, Judge Adler began to take active interest in politics, and in 1910 he was elected to the Assembly. Six years later he was chosen majority leader of the Assembly.
He has written a number of books on government and historical subjects.
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