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Sidney Asher Fine

(1903 - 1982)

FINE, Sidney Asher, a Representative from New York; born in New York City, September 14, 1903; attended public schools; was graduated from College of the City of New York in 1923 and from the law school of Columbia University in 1926; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced practice in New York City; member of the State assembly in 1945 and 1946 and the State senate 1947-1950; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second, Eighty-third, and Eighty-fourth Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his resignation January 2, 1956; New York State Supreme Court, 1956-1975; resided in New York City until his death there on April 23, 1982; interment at Old Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, N.Y.


Sources: Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress