{{Short description|American politician (1842–1905)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Edwin Einstein | image = Edwin Einstein.jpg | state = New York | district = 7th | term_start = March 4, 1879 | term_end = March 3, 1881 | preceded = Anthony Eickhoff | succeeded = P. Henry Dugro | birth_date = {{birth date text|November 18, 1842}} | death_date = {{death-date and age|January 24, 1905|November 18, 1842}} | birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, US | death_place = New York City, US | spouse = Fanny Hendricks Einstein | children = | profession = {{ubl | Merchant, banker | politician }} | party = Republican | alma_mater = College of the City of New York <!--Military service--> | nickname = | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = }} '''Edwin Einstein''' (November 18, 1842 – January 24, 1905) 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''.<ref>{{Cite web|last= |first= |title= United States Tobacco Journal, Volume 89 |publisher=BMT Publications|date= January 1, 1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w31BAQAAMAAJ&q=fred+hirschhorn&pg=RA15-PA6 }}</ref>

==Career== Einstein was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress, and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1881.<ref>{{cite web|title=Edwin Einstein|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/edwin_einstein/403788|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|access-date=16 July 2013}}</ref> Not a candidate for renomination in 1880, he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Edwin Einstein|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000097|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=16 July 2013}}</ref>

==Death== Einstein died of heart trouble, in Manhattan, New York County, New York, on January 24, 1905 (age 62 years, 67 days). He is interred at Beth Olom Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Edwin Einstein|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|access-date=16 July 2013}}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Biography}} *List of Jewish members of the United States Congress

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