Louis Benjamin Heller was a Democratic

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 member of the United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

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He was born on New York's Lower East Side. Louis Benjamin Heller was the second of Max and Dora Heller's four children. The senior Hellers had emigrated from Romania

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 just a few years before the birth of their first child, a daughter named Freida. He graduated from Fordham Law School in 1926. He served as a special deputy assistant attorney general

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 for cases of election fraud from 1936 until 1946. He was an appeal agent with the United States Selective Service

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 from 1941 until 1942. He was a member of the New York State Senate

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 from 1943 until 1944. He was elected to Congress in 1949 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John J. Delaney

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 and served from February 15, 1949 until his resignation on July 21, 1954. He served on the New York Supreme Court

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 from 1966 until 1977. He died in Plantation, Florida

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