Lucius Littauer
Lucius Littauer was born in New York City, New York, United States on January 20th, 1859 and is the American Politician. At the age of 85, Lucius Littauer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Returning to Gloversville, Littauer entered his father's glove making business and went on to become an officer and director of many commercial and financial institutions.
Littauer was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1907). He chose not to stand for reelection in 1906, returning instead to his glovemaking business. Littauer served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1928, and was Regent of the University of the State of New York from 1912 to 1914.
On February 4, 1914, Littauer and his brother William were convicted of smuggling and conspiracy to defraud after admitting to having imported valuable jewels from Venice worth in excess of $40,000 without paying the necessary duty. Federal District Court Judge Edwin S. Thomas sentenced Littauer to six months in jail, though the sentence was suspended. In his decision, Thomas stressed that Littauer's high standing served to aggravate the crime: "For an ex-congressman so far to forget his oath taken five times and knowing so well the provisions of the law he helped to frame seems to be incomprehensible."
Littauer retired in 1927 and devoted his energies to education, medical research, and philanthropic work.
In 1936, Littauer donated $2 million to help found Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, which is known today as Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. One of the buildings on Harvard Kennedy School's main campus is named in his honor.
He also offered to build a hospital in memory of his father, Nathan Littauer. This act of generosity stirred the citizens of the community to contribute another $10,000, and on May 30, 1894, the original Nathan Littauer Hospital was opened.
Littauer died at his country home near New Rochelle, New York, on March 2, 1944, and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in New Rochelle.
