Career
Gladstone set up a private law practice in Manhattan and was active in the Bronx County Democratic organization,serving as secretary of his district's county committee,as a delegate to judicial conventions,and on the law and speakers' committees. [3]
Gladstone was also active in a variety of fraternal,civic,religious,and political circles. He was chairman of the board of directors of the Hunts Point Hebrew Association,President of the Onward Lodge of the Independent Order of Brith Abraham,and a member the American Legion,the Elks,and the Bronx County Bar Association. [3]
He was elected to the Assembly on the Democratic Party and Recovery Party lines in November 1933 [4] and re-elected November 1934. [5] He devoted his legislative career to improving educational standards and conditions in the public schools. He was also chairman of the 1934 Emergency Unemployment Relief drive in the Bronx. [3]
On April 2,1935,Gladstone collapsed from a heart attack in the Assembly and rushed by ambulance to Albany Hospital. [6] He had appeared to recover and was in apparent good health when he was re-elected to a third term in November 1935. However,on December 13,1935,after leaving a meeting at the local Democratic club in the Bronx and returning home,he suddenly collapsed and died. [3]
He was succeeded by Julius J. Gans,who won a special election held on January 22,1936. [7]
Legacy
Gladstone was survived by his wife,Florence,and three-year-old daughter,Mildred. [3]
Benjamin Gladstone Square,surrounded by Westchester Avenue,Hoe Avenue,and West Farms Road,a block away from Gladstone's residence at 1106 West Farms Road and previously called Fox Square,was named after him in 1937. [8] [9]
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