Elmer Rosenberg

Elmer Rosenberg was a Hungarian-American labor leader and politician from New York.

Life

He was born in Újpest, which is now a district of Budapest, Hungary, and attended the public schools there. He emigrated to the United States in 1900, and became a cloth cutter in New York City. He graduated from Rand School of Social Science. He was President of Local 10 of the Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters Union; and President of the Joint Board of the Cloak, Skirt and Reefer Makers' Union. He oversaw multiple strikes by textile workers and often participated in pay and working-condition discussions between garment unions and manufacturers.
He was a Socialist member of the New York State Assembly in [141st New York (state)|New York State Legislature|1918].
In 1920, he left New York City and moved to Lake Huntington, Sullivan County, New York, where he bought a boarding house. He married Rose Braverman.
His son, Robert Rosenberg, was a history teacher and hotel owner. His daughter Esterita "Cissie" Blumberg published a book of memoirs: Remember the Catskills: Tales of a Recovering Hotelkeeper.
Rosenberg died in Miami, Florida on April 10, 1951.