Samuel Dickstein
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Samuel Dickstein was a Democratic congressional representative from New York, a New York State Supreme Court Justice, and a Soviet spy. He played a key role in establishing the committee that would be
Dickstein in 1937
John William McCormack (later 45th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives) was Dickstein's co-chair
Meyer London
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Meyer London was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American lawyer and politician from New York City. He was legal counsel to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union during the 1910 New York Cloakmake
Samuel Dickstein
…Assemblyman of the New York State Legislature. In 1922, Dickstein was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, defeating Socialist incumbent Meyer London. He was reelected eleven times. He resigned from Congress on December 30, 1945. In 1930, Dickstein co-sponsored a bill condemning religious persecution…
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1915–1923
London (far left) in front of his father's printing shop c. 1891
London (standing, right) and his wife visit the law office of Isaac Hourwich c. 1893–1900
Congressman Meyer London at a rally for striking Brooklyn streetcar workers, 1916