Adolph Joachim Sabath (April 4, 1866 – November 6, 1952) was an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in 1952.
Born in Záboří, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic) into a Jewish family,[1] he immigrated to America at age 15, became active in real estate, and received his LL.B.
He served in local offices including justice of the peace (1895–1897) and police magistrate (1897–1906) until election to Congress from the Jewish and Czech West Side in 1907.
In 1911, he received much positive attention in the Czech community in Chicago for his fundraising efforts in the search for Elsie Paroubek,[2] and paid for the child's funeral when her body was discovered.
"The bootlegging and gang killings...are not the by-product but the direct product of the Volstead Act, and the supporters of this crime breeding legislation must claim the new cult of American criminals entirely as their own.