While he rarely went to court himself, Morgenthau, by his own count, supervised a total of 3.5 million cases over the years. Andrew Cuomo; former Gov Eliot Spitzer; Lanny A Breuer, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division; and Cyrus Vance Jr, who succeeded him as the district attorney. Robert Morris Morgenthau was born in Manhattan on July 31, 1919. His grandfather, the real estate tycoon Henry Morgenthau Sr., was President Woodrow Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in World War I and a prominent voice against Armenian genocide. Besides his wife, he is survived by the children of his first marriage, Jenny Morgenthau, Anne Morgenthau Grand, Elinor Morgenthau, Robert P Morgenthau and Barbara Morgenthau Lee; the children of his second marriage, Joshua Franks Morgenthau and Amy Elinor Morgenthau; and by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Source: bd News24 July 22, 2019 06:00 UTC