Edwin Einstein
Edwin Einstein was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.
Biography
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Einstein was son of Lamle 'Lewis' and Judith Einstein. He moved with his parents to New York City in 1846, worked as clerk in a store, and received a collegiate training in the College of the City of New York. He entered Union College, but did not graduate, and continued in mercantile pursuits. He married Fanny Hendricks. He went into a partnership with Louis Hirschhorn founding a cigar manufacturing business named Hirschhorn & Einstein.Career
Einstein was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress, and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1881. Not a candidate for renomination in 1880, he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for New York City">New York (state)">New York City in 1892.President of New River Mineral Company, Einstein was also director of Alabama Mineral Land Company, director of Raritan Woolen Mills, and trustee of Texas Pacific Land Trust. He was also Dock Commissioner of New York City in 1895.