Robert Morgenthau, a World War II Navy hero best known as Manhattan’s legendary district attorney, and who worked as a practicing lawyer and philanthropist through his final days, died Sunday. He was 99.
He passed away at Lenox Hill Hospital after a short illness, sources told The Post.
For four decades, Morgenthau’s patrician baritone — honed in his youth among his family friends, the Roosevelts and the Kennedys — rumbled through the halls of lower Manhattan courthouses.
In the 1960s as Manhattan US attorney, and then for 34 years until his retirement as DA at age 90, he was “The Boss” to loyal underlings and “Morgy” to tabloid headline writers.
And there were many headlines for the man who became the model for “Law and Order’s” original stern prosecutor, Adam Schiff.
By his own count, Morgenthau oversaw some 3.5 million cases as DA, guided by his often-repeated motto that justice be pursued “without fear or favor.”
Robert Morris Morgenthau was an American lawyer. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County, having previously served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York throughout much of the 1960s on the appointment of John F. Kennedy.
Born: July 31, 1919, New York, NY...7-31-1919=38,57,76,31,58..212th day 153 left
Died: July 21, 2019, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY....7-21-2019=28,47,67,22,40..202nd day 163 left
he died 10 days before his 100th b-day. or 1 week 3 days..13
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| 130/13..he died 1 week 3 days/13 before his 100th b-day |
he died at age 99.."Thirteen"
he was born on the 212th day..born and bred to be a...
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