Gustave Hartman (August 12, 1880 – November 12, 1936) was a Hungarian-born Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.
[1] Hartman immigrated to America at an early age and attended New York City public school.
He was awarded the First Faculty Scholarship Prize in high standing for studies in 1903, and in 1904 he became president of his graduating class.
[3] In the 1908 United States House of Representatives election, he was the Republican candidate in New York's 10th congressional district.
[9] Hartman founded the Israel Orphan Asylum in 1913, financing it out of his pocket and running it until his death.
[10] He was also an executive committee member of the Zionist Organization of America, vice-president of the Jewish Council of Greater New York, honorary director of the Jewish Memorial Hospital, and a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York County Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association, the National Geographic Society, the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, the Freemasons, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America, Congregation Ohab Zedek, and Beth Hamedrash Hagodol.
[8] Two funeral services were held for him, with 5,000 people gathered outside the Orphan Asylum and 1,500 in Temple B'nai Jeshurun.
The funeral was attended by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Representatives William I. Sirovich and Samuel Dickstein, Manhattan Borough President Samuel Levy, Assemblyman Irwin Steingut, New York Supreme Court Justices William T. Collins, Aaron J.
Levy, Bernard L. Shientag, and Isidor Wasservogel, General Sessions Judges Morris Koenig and Jonah J. Goldstein, Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, Magistrates Louis B. Brodsky, Peter A. Abeles, Alexander Brough, Nathan D. Perlman, and Adolph Stern, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Grover Whalen, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, John F. Curry, and Domestic Relations Court Justice Jacob Panken.