Portrait of Robert F. Wagner in the U.S. Senate Reception Room

Robert Ferdinand Wagner (8 June 1877–4 May 1953) was a Democratic United States Senator from New York from 1927 until 1949. He was born in Nastätten, Province Hesse-Nassau, Germany, and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1885. His family settled in New York City and Wagner attended the public schools. He graduated from the College of the City of New York (now named City College) in 1898 and from New York Law School in 1900. He was admitted to the bar in 1900. He was the father of Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who became mayor of New York City. Download high resolution version (610x610, 147 KB)Robert F. Wagner U.S. Senate portrait Source: U.S. Senate Art & History Details: Robert F. Wagner by Steven Polson Oil on canvas, 2004 Sight (oval) measurement Height: 25. ... Download high resolution version (610x610, 147 KB)Robert F. Wagner U.S. Senate portrait Source: U.S. Senate Art & History Details: Robert F. Wagner by Steven Polson Oil on canvas, 2004 Sight (oval) measurement Height: 25. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... NY redirects here. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Nastätten is a town and a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... The Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (German Hessen-Nassau) was created in 1868 as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the previously independent Electorate of Hesse (Hesse-Kassel), the Duchy of Nassau, the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, areas gained from the Kingdom of Bavaria... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - City  468. ... The College of the City of New York was: The former name of the City College of New York The former name of the City University of New York This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... New York Law School is a private law school in Lower Manhattan in New York City. ... Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... Mayor Wagner greets the Little Rock Nine (1958) Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr. ... Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - City  468. ...

Wagner commenced practice in New York City and was a member of the State Assembly (1905-1908), member of the State senate (1909-1918). In 1911, he was elevated to Majority Leader/President Pro Tempore and served in that capacity in the 1912 and 1913 sessions. Upon the elevation of Lieutenant Governor Martin Glynn to the Governorship in October 1913 after the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer, Wagner became acting Lieutenant Governor until the election of 1914. In January 1915, following the loss of the Senate by the Democrats, he became Minority Leader until his retirement in 1918. Also, during his time in the Senate, he served as chairman of the State Factory Investigating Committee (1911-1915). Wagner was delegate to the New York constitutional conventions in 1915 and 1938, and justice of the supreme court of New York (1919-1926). Martin Henry Glynn (September 27, 1871 - December 14, 1924) was a Democratic Governor of New York. ... William Sulzer (March 18, 1863 – November 6, 1941) was a Governor of New York. ... A constitutional convention is a gathering of delegates for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution. ...

Senate career

Wagner was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926, and reelected in 1932, 1938, and 1944. He resigned on June 28, 1949, due to ill health. He was unable to attend any sessions of the 80th or 81st Congress from 1947 to 1949 because of a heart ailment.[1] Wagner was the chairman of the Committee on Patents in the Seventy-third Congress, of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys in the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses, and of the Committee on Banking and Currency in the Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses. He was a delegate to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. Seal of the U.S. Senate Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      Senate composition following 2006 elections The United States Senate is... June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 186 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The 73rd Congress met from March 9, 1933 to January 2, 1935. ... The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has jurisdiction over matters related to energy and nuclear waste policy, territorial policy, native Hawaiian matters, and public lands. ... The 73rd Congress met from March 9, 1933 to January 2, 1935. ... // Dates of Sessions 1935-1936 First session: January 3, 1935 to August 26, 1935 Second session: January 3, 1936 to June 20, 1936 This was the first Congress to take place entirely under the provisions of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which changed the date for convening... The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, price controls, deposit insurance, export promotion and controls, federal monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes, currency and coinage, public and private housing, urban... Senators Alva Blanchard Adams (D-CO) Charles Oscar Andrews (D-FL) Henry Fountain Ashurst (D-AZ) Warren Robinson Austin (R-VT) Nathan Lynn Bachman (D-TN) Josiah William Bailey (D-NC) John Hollis Bankhead (D-AL) William Warren Barbour (R-NJ) Alben William Barkley (D-KY) Alexander Grant Barry (R... Senators George David Aiken (R-VT) Charles Oscar Andrews (D-FL) Warren Robinson Austin (R-VT) Josiah William Bailey (D-NC) Raymond Earl Baldwin (R-CT) Joseph Hurst Ball (R-MN) John Hollis Bankhead (D-AL) Alben William Barkley (D-KY) Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (D-MS) Ralph Owen Brewster (R... Mount Washington Hotel The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, commonly known as Bretton Woods conference, was a gathering of 730 delegates from all 45 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of... Bretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll, New Hampshire whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities. ...

His most important legislative achievements include the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933 and the United States Housing Authority in 1937. After serving as chairman of the National Labor Board and witnessing first-hand its problems, he introduced and won passage of the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, that created the National Labor Relations Board in 1935. He also introduced the Railway Pension Law, and co-sponsored the Wagner-O'Day Act, the predecessor to the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act. NRA Blue Eagle poster. ... The United States Housing Authority, or USHA, was an agency created during 1937 as part of the New Deal. ... The National Labor Board was the predecessor to the National Labor Relations Board. ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the act. ... The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the United States Government charged with conducting elections for union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. ... The Javits-Wagner-ODay Act or JWOD, 41 U.S.C. Â§ 46 et seq. ...

On the cover of Time magazine: March 19, 1934.

Wagner and Edward P. Costigan sponsored a federal anti-Lynching law. In 1935 attempts were made to persuade President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support the Costigan-Wagner Bill. However, Roosevelt refused to support a bill that would punish sheriffs who failed to protect their prisoners from lynch mobs. He believed that he would lose the support of Southern Democrats in Congress and lose his entire New Deal program. There were 18 lynchings of blacks in the South in 1935, but after the threat of federal legislation the number fell to eight in 1936, and to two in 1939. Image File history File links WagnerTime. ... Image File history File links WagnerTime. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Edward P. Costigan was born July 1, 1874. ...

Death and legacy

Wagner was a Brother of Phi Sigma Kappa during his college years at the Zeta Chapter at the City College of New York.

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On September 14, 2004, a portrait of Wagner, along with one of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, was unveiled in the Senate Reception Room. The new portraits joined a group of distinguished former Senators, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Robert A. Taft. Portraits of this group of Senators, known as the "Famous Five", were unveiled on March 12, 1959. September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (March 22, 1884–April 18, 1951) was a Republican Senator from the state of Michigan who participated in the creation of the United Nations. ... Henry Clay, Sr. ... Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman during the nations antebellum era. ... John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century, best known as a spokesman for slavery, nullification and the rights of electoral minorities, such as slave-holders. ... Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. ... Robert Alphonso Taft I (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft family political dynasty of Ohio, was a United States Senator and Presidential candidate in the United States Republican Party. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (72nd in leap years). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Reference

• J. Joseph Huthmacher. Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism (1968)

External link

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress