Court into the newly-consolidated Supreme Court. He served as a delegate of the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention. At one point, he handled a case involving Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's fight with writer William Manchester over his book The Death of a President. He retired as Justice in 1972 and joined the law offices of Shea, Gould, Climenko and Kramer as counsel to the firm. Streit was a member of the New York City Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Freemasons, the Level Club, and the Young Mens Philanthropic League. In 1958, he married Jean F. McBride, a television actress who appeared in the daytime television serial Love of Life. They had a son, Saul S. Streit Jr. Streit died at home on September 3, 1983. References External links The Political Graveyard 1897 births 1983 deaths Polish emigrants to the United States American people of Polish-Jewish descent 20th-century American Jews Jewish American attorneys Jewish American state legislators in New York (state) Stuyvesant High School alumni New York Law School alumni 20th-century American judges Lawyers from New York City Politicians from Manhattan 20th-century American politicians Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly New York Supreme Court Justices American Freemasons