{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Martin Solomon | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|01|24}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | office = Member of the New York State Senate | term_start = February 14, 1978 | term_end = November 7, 1995 | predecessor = Albert B. Lewis | successor = Seymour Lachman | constituency = {{ubl |22nd district (1978-1982) |19th district (1983-1992) |22nd district (1993-1995) }} | children = | party = Democratic }}
'''Martin Michael Solomon'''<ref name=JD/> (born January 24, 1950)<ref name="Red Book"/> is an American lawyer and politician from New York.
==Life== He was born to a Jewish family. He graduated with a B.A. ''magna cum laude'' from SUNY Albany<ref name="Red Book">[https://books.google.com/books?id=CqNWAAAAYAAJ&q=red+book+martin+solomon+born ''New York Red Book''] (1985–1986; pg. 127)</ref> and a J.D. from New York Law School in June 1975.<ref name=JD>{{cite book |url=https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=commencement_progs |title=83rd Commencement Exercises |date=June 8, 1975 |publisher=New York Law School |access-date=November 3, 2021}}</ref> He practiced law in Brooklyn, and entered politics as a Democrat.
In 1978, he was elected to the New York State Senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Albert B. Lewis as State Superintendent of Insurance. Solomon was re-elected several times, and remained in the Senate until 1995, sitting in the 182nd, 183rd, 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th, 189th, 190th and 191st New York State Legislatures.
In November 1995, he was elected to the New York City Civil Court; and in November 2003 to the New York Supreme Court (2nd. D.).<ref>[http://www.courts.state.ny.us/history/legal-history-new-york/history-legal-bench-supreme-court.html "Solomon, Martin M."] at the Historical Society of the New York courts</ref> In May 2012, he was appointed to the Appellate Term for the 2nd, 11th and 13th districts.<ref>[http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/comdiv/kings_bio_Solomon.shtml Biography of Justice Martin M. Solomon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529115827/http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/comdiv/kings_bio_Solomon.shtml |date=2016-05-29 }} at the NYS Unified Court System</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-sen}} {{succession box | before = Albert B. Lewis | title = New York State Senate <br>22nd District | years = 1978–1982 | after = Anna V. Jefferson}} {{succession box | before = Marty Markowitz | title = New York State Senate <br>19th District | years = 1983–1992 | after = Howard E. Babbush}} {{succession box | before = Velmanette Montgomery | title = New York State Senate <br>22nd District | years = 1993–1995 | after = Seymour P. Lachman}} {{s-end}}
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