Bernard S. Deutsch (September 25, 1884 - November 21, 1935) was an American lawyer, politician and Jewish leader. He was born in Baltimore in 1884, but attended CCNY and New York Law School. He began practicing law in 1905, rising to president of the Bronx County Bar Association, member of the Admissions Committee of the New York Bar Association, and member of the New York State Municipal Law Commission. He entered politics in 1932 when the City Bar Association declined to approve either the Democratic or Republican nominees for Supreme Court Justice. Mr. Deutsch gained 300,000 votes as an independent - this led to his nomination as Aldermanic President on the Fusion ticket in 1933. The City Fusion Party was the coalition by which Fiorello La Guardia had won the mayorship, and so Deutch's election by the party would bring him into close association with La Guardia. At the time of his death, he was President of the New York City Board of Aldermen, and was Chairman of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and had been president of The American Jewish Congress for seven years, during which he established that organization as an aggressive defender of Jewish rights in the face of widespread antisemitism in the wake of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Via his Chairmanship of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, he was put in charge of aspects of municipal policy, budget, and land-use, resulting in the production of an extensive array of maps between 1933 and 1935.



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