'''Abram Ellenbogen''' (February 26, 1883 – August 1, 1929) was a Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York City.

== Life == Ellenbogen was born on February 26, 1883, in Troy, New York, the son of Hyman S. Ellenbogen and Lina Rothstein.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 October 1929 |title='06-ABRAM ELLENBOGEN, LL.B. '08 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Harvard_Alumni_Bulletin/TpvRZs-AjnMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA88-IA55&printsec=frontcover |work=Harvard Alumni Bulletin |page=79 |via=Google Books |volume=XXXII |issue=3}}</ref>

Ellenbogen attended Troy High School. He went Harvard College from 1902 to 1906, graduating in the latter year with an A.B. He then went to Harvard Law School, graduating from there with an LL.B. in 1908. He moved to New York City a few months later and began practicing law there as an associate of Churchill and Marlow, 63 Wall Street. He was with them until 1913, when he started an independent practice. A year later, he formed the partnership Ellenbogen and Selig, with offices at the Woolworth Building.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Secretary_s_Third_Report/PMgnAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA123&printsec=frontcover |title=Harvard College Class of 1906, Third Report |date=June 1916 |publisher=Crimson Printing Co. |location=Cambridge, M.A. |pages=123 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref>

In 1913, Ellenbogen was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the New York County 15th District. He served in the Assembly in 1914,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murlin |first=Edgar L. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Red_Book/CQc3AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA135&printsec=frontcover |title=The New York Red Book |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |year=1914 |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=135 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> 1915,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murlin |first=Edgar L. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Red_Book/tDU0AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover |title=The New York Red Book |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |year=1915 |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=143 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> 1916,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murlin |first=Edgar L. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Red_Book/Hy83AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA147&printsec=frontcover |title=The New York Red Book |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |year=1916 |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=147–148 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> 1917,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Red_Book/gi80AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA164&printsec=frontcover |title=The New York Red Book |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |year=1917 |editor-last=Malcolm |editor-first=James |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=164–165 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> and 1918.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Red_Book/uH40AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA146&printsec=frontcover |title=The New York Red Book |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |year=1918 |editor-last=Malcolm |editor-first=James |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=146–147 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> He lost the 1918 re-election to the Democratic candidate Mary Lilly.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Red_Book/JzE0AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA486&printsec=frontcover |title=The New York Red Book |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |year=1919 |editor-last=Malcolm |editor-first=James |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=486 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> While in the Assembly, he passed a bill that provided for teachers' pensions,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/universaljewishe0004unse/page/84/mode/1up |title=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Ktav Publishing House |year=1969 |editor-last=Landman |editor-first=Isaac |editor-link=Isaac Landman |volume=4 |location=New York, N.Y. |pages=84 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> which was called the Ellenbogen Bill. He was also chairman of the Cities Committee, abolished fees in the New York City Sheriff's Office, consolidated the Municipal Building Department branches, and sought to improve the treatment of public school teachers.<ref name=":0" />

In 1919, Ellenbogen was elected a Justice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Fifth District, Manhattan. He was originally elected to fill an unexpired term, and in 1923 he was re-elected for a full ten-year term. He served as Justice until his death.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Yearbook/rcQ6AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA3-PA452&printsec=frontcover |title=New York County Lawyers' Association Year Book, 1930 |publisher=Correct Printing Company |year=1930 |location=New York, N.Y. |pages=452–454 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1926, he unsuccessfully ran for Justice of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial District.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Red_Book/qMIGAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA379&printsec=frontcover |title=New York Red Book |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |year=1927 |editor-last=Malcolm |editor-first=James |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=379 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> He was an alternate delegate to the 1928 Republican National Convention.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Official_Report_of_the_Proceedings_of_th/B9IGAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA85&printsec=frontcover |title=Official Report of the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Republican National Convention |publisher=The Tenny Press |year=1928 |location=New York, N.Y. |pages=85 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref>

In 1919, he married Miriam Isaacs. Her father Reuben Isaacs was the oldest importer and exporter of Japanese products in America.<ref name=":1" />

Ellenbogen died in Lake Placid on August 1, 1929. He was traveling there with his wife to recuperate from a three-week pleurisy illness, but complications developed shortly after arriving there.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2 August 1929 |title=ABRAM ELLENBOGEN, JURIST, DIES AT 46 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1929-08-02_78_26123_1/page/19/mode/1up |work=The New York Times |location=New York, N.Y. |page=19 |via=Internet Archive |volume=LXXVIII |issue=26123}}</ref>

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