Irwin Untermyer, son of Samuel Untermyer, was named by the Democratic Judiciary Convention as a Democratic candidate for Supreme Court Justice.
He was one of five chosen by the convention at Tammany Hall as candidates for election to the Supreme Court bench. He was named to succeed Justice Delehanty, who retires next year.
Justice Albert Cohn, who was appointed to fill the term of the late Justice Gibb, was also nominated.
Judge Gustave Hartman of the City Court was nominated, with four others, for the Supreme Court, 1st Judicial District, by the Republicans meeting in convention at the National Republican Club.
City Court Justice Hartman has been one of the few Republican vote getters in the Tammany strongholds. His term expires at the end of the year.
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