Benjamin Antin

Benjamin Antin (August 4, 1884 – October 22, 1956) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from New York.

He was born on August 4, 1884, in Berlinez, then a village in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire,[1] now located in the Bar Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

In 1921, the Citizens Union endorsed Antin for re-election, saying that he was "intelligently active in behalf of housing reform bills.

In 1927, he published his autobiography: The Gentleman from the Twenty-Second (Boni & Liveright, New York City, 301 pages).

[6] He died on October 22, 1956, at his home at 601 East 20th Street in the Bronx, after a long illness.