Robert F. Wagner
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Portrait of Robert F. Wagner in the U.S. Senate Reception Room
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United States Senator from New York |
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In office March 4, 1927 – June 28, 1949 |
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| Preceded by | James W. Wadsworth, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | John Foster Dulles |
| Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York | |
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In office October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914 |
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| Governor | Martin H. Glynn |
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Martin H. Glynn as Lieutenant Governor |
| Succeeded by |
Edward Schoeneck as Lieutenant Governor |
| Member of the New York Senate from the 16th district |
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In office January 1, 1909 – December 31, 1918 |
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| Preceded by | John T. McCall |
| Succeeded by | James A. Foley |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from the New York County, 22nd district |
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In office January 1, 1907 – December 31, 1908 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Rock |
| Succeeded by | George W. Baumann |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from the New York County, 3rd district |
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In office January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Gotthardt A. Litthauer |
| Succeeded by | Maurice F. Smith |
| Personal details | |
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Robert Ferdinand Wagner June 8, 1877 Nastätten, Hesse-Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | May 4, 1953 (aged 75) New York City, New York |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Marie McTague (m. 1908, d. 1919, one son) |
| Children | Robert Ferdinand Wagner II |
| Alma mater |
City College of New York (1898) New York Law School (1900) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Robert Ferdinand Wagner I (June 8, 1877 – May 4, 1953) was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949. Working closely in the state legislature with fellow New York City Democrat Al Smith, Wagner embraced reform in the 1910s and 1920s, especially to the benefit of their core constituency, the working class. They built a coalition for these reforms that embraced unions, social workers, some businessmen, and numerous middle-class activists and civic reform organizations across the state. As Senator, Wagner was a leader of the New Deal Coalition putting special emphasis on supporting the labor movement. He sponsored three major laws: the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Social Security Act of 1935, and the Public Housing Act of 1937. His son, Robert F. Wagner, Jr. was mayor of New York from 1954 through 1965.
He was born in Nastätten, then in the Province Hesse-Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now in Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Federal Republic of Germany), and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1885. His family settled in New York City's Yorkville neighborhood, and Wagner attended the public schools. His father was a janitor. He graduated from the College of the City of New York (now named City College) in 1898 where he was a brother of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and from New York Law School in 1900. He was admitted to the bar in 1900. He was raised as a Lutheran, but he became a Methodist in his college years and taught Sunday school; he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1946.
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