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Robert Ferdinand Wagner I (June 8, 1877 – May 4, 1953) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who represented the state of New York in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1949. Born in Prussia , Wagner immigrated to the United States with his family in 1885.
Wagner was born in Yorkville, Manhattan, the son of Margaret Marie (McTague) and German-born United States Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner.He attended Taft School and graduated from Yale University in 1933, where he was on the business staff of campus humor magazine The Yale Record and became a member of Scroll and Key (as was John Lindsay, his successor as mayor).
Robert Ferdinand Wagner III (January 6, 1944 – November 15, 1993) was an American politician and public servant. He was a New York City civic leader who served as the Deputy Mayor of the City of New York , and President of the New York City Board of Education .
Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) [1] is an American actor. He is known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–1970), Switch ...
The Central Labor Council's support was especially critical to the success of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives as was the use of the Wagner name, as it gave mainstream legitimacy to the effort and helped to motivate several fairly conservative unions to provide document accessions to the collection. [8]
Wagner also made housing discrimination based on race, creed, or color illegal in New York City. [3] In 1989, NYU renamed the school the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in honor of the three-term mayor after receiving a major donation from Marshall Manley, Ray Chambers, and Walter Annenberg. [4]
Incumbent mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. was decisively re-elected to a third term in office, defeating Attorney General of New York Louis J. Lefkowitz and City Comptroller Lawrence E. Gerosa. Wagner received 51.03% of the vote to Lefkowitz's 34.46%. [1]
Robert K. Christenberry, president of the Ambassador Hotel (Republican) Joyce Cowley, single mother and Trotskyist activist [9] [10] (Socialist Workers) Eric Hass, Socialist Labor Party nominee for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956 [11] [12] (Industrial Government) Robert F. Wagner Jr., incumbent mayor since 1954 (Democratic and ...