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He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1907, and practiced law in New York City.
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George Zerdin Medalie
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He was Special Assistant New York State Attorney General in charge of the prosecution of election frauds from 1926 to 1928. In 1931, he was appointed by President Herbert Hoover United States. Attorney for the Southern District of New New York Medalie appointed Thomas East. Dewey as his Chief Assistant, and when Medalie resigned in November 1933, Dewey acted as United States. Attorney for a month.
In 1932, he ran on the Republican ticket for United States. Senator from New York, but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat Robert F. Wagner.
On September 28, 1945, he was appointed by Dewey, now Governor, to the New York Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of John T. Loughran as Chief Judge, and died in office. He died of acute bronchitis.
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