BIO: Samuel S. Koenig; New York State
surname: Koenig

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Samuel S. Koenig, Secretary of State, was born in Hungary in 1872 and
came to this country with his parents when a child. The family located on the
lower east side of New York city,w here Mr. Koenig has made his home ever
since. He attended the public schools for a time, but at an early age went to
work in a commercial house, where he remained ten years, attaining the
position of assistant manager. He attended the sessions of the Evening High
School to perfect his education and later took a three-year course in the
evening law class of the New York University, working during the day. He
graduated in 1896, being one of the honor men of his class, and has been
practicing law since that time.

     Mr. Koenig became interested in politics in 1891, and took the stump in
the Fassett-Flower campaign. In the same year he organized the Federal Club,
which is now the regular Republican organization of the Sixth Assembly
district of the county of New York. He has been an enthusiastic worker in the
Republican cause, and in 1896 was elected Secretary of the McKinley League. In
the following year he was elected a member of the New York County Committee
and is now Second Vice-President of that body.

     He was a delegate to the State conventions of his political party from
1896 to 1908, and was a presidential elector in 1900. He was elected executive
member of the Republican party in his Assembly district in 1903. He was
appointed counsel in the State Lunacy Commission in 1904, which position he
now holds. He was elected a member of the Republican State Committee in 1906
and re-elected in 1908. Under his leadership the district in which he lives
was won from the Democratic party.

     Mr. Koenig is a Mason and Knight of Pythias and a member of the various
beneficial and charitabel societies. He is interested in hospital work and is
connected with the directorate of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

     Nominated for Secretary of State in 1908 Mr. Koenig received 829,737
votes to 707,259 cast for John S. Whalen, Democrat.