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The Republican nominee was Emil F. Goldhaber, a local lawyer who had worked in the state attorney general's office and in private practice. [8] He was unopposed in the primary. The split in the Democratic leadership made the district attorney's race the liveliest of the campaign, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer writer Joseph H. Miller. [6]
The Commonwealth Attorneys Act of 1980 [6] established the Office of Attorney General as an independent office headed by an elected attorney general. [7] The office has the responsibility for the prosecution of those crimes prosecuted by the commonwealth, including organized crime and public corruption, as well as civil litigation on behalf of some, but not all, commonwealth agencies and the ...
Thomas or Tom Duffy may refer to: Thomas Duffy (VC) (1805–1858), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1857; Thomas A. Duffy (1906–1979), New York politician and judge; Thomas C. Duffy (born 1955), American composer and conductor of the Yale University Concert Band; Thomas J. Duffy, American designer/craftsman; Thomas F. Duffy (born 1955 ...
Duffy played a role in the 1980 ABSCAM scandal, in which numerous elected officials were targeted in an FBI sting operation, with agents posing as Arab businessmen offering bribes. Duffy was the lead defense attorney for Louis C. Johanson, a member of the Philadelphia City Council who was sentenced to three years in prison. [2]
In November 1956, Duffy defeated Tompkins who ran for re-election. Duffy was a member of the New York State Senate (8th D.) from 1957 to 1965, sitting in the 171st, 172nd, 173rd, 174th and 175th New York State Legislatures. He was a justice of the New York City Civil Court from 1967 to 1976. He died on April 11, 1979, in Calvary Hospital in the ...
Republicans Thomas Humbach, Karen Ostberg, Leslie Kahn, Edward Mevec and Mark Starkman are facing Democrats Colleen Duffy, ... He flirted with a run for state Attorney General in 2018 before ...
Attorney, Politician James Henderson Duff (January 21, 1883 – December 20, 1969) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party , he served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1957.
Thomas Sergeant (January 14, 1782 – May 8, 1860) was an American politician and judge. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1812 to 1814, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1819, Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1819 to 1820, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1834 to 1846.