Robert Ferdinand Wagner (8 June 1877-4 May 1953) was a US Senator from New York (D) from 4 March 1927 to 28 June 1949 (succeeding James W. Wadsworth Jr. and preceding John Foster Dulles).
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Robert Ferdinand Wagner was born in Nastatten, Prussia, German Empire on 8 June 1877, and his family came to the United States in 1885. He became a lawyer in 1900 and served in the New York State Assembly in 1905 and from 1907 to 1908, in the State Senate from 1909 to 1918, as acting Lieutenant Governor from 1913 to 1914, and as US Senator from 1927 to 1949. He was a Democratic Party leader, and he was a leader in crafting the New Deal; he was also an important ally of Tammany Hall. He resigned in 1949 due to ill health and died in 1953. His son Robert F. Wagner Jr. went on to serve a s Mayor of New York City.