shut out of power, the New York City delegation felt oppressed in light of the pay raise given to New York City Aldermen, making their salary more than three times an assemblyman's for what amounted to one day's work a week. Many assemblymen therefore cut down their time in Albany to tend to their own businesses at home. It was during this period that Steingut contemplated leaving the Assembly. The congressional seat soon became vacant because the Democrats had no intention to re-nominate Charles I. Stengle who had moved to New Jersey and was not heard from in the district. On June 10, over 1,500 Democrats, practically all of the Madison Club membership and more, together with John McCooey, senator Jimmy Walker and paint magnate Arthur S. Somers as toastmaster, turned out for a dinner at Brighton Beach designed to create a "boom" for Steingut-for-Congress. The boom failed to gain momentum, and McCooey eventually endorsed Andrew L. Somers, Arthur's son, in the Democratic primary. Somers represented the district until his death in 1949. Family On June 12, 1914, he married Rea Kaufmann ( June 12, 1893, in New York City). They had two children, Jeanne Eleanor Weiss ( August 12, 1917) and Speaker Stanley Steingut (1920–1989). Death Steingut died in Brooklyn on September 26, 1952, and was buried in Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Notes References External links 1893 births 1952 deaths Speakers of the New York State Assembly Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly St. John's University School of Law alumni Jewish American state legislators in New York (state) Politicians from Brooklyn 20th-century American politicians People from the Lower East Side 20th-century American Jews