Joseph Emanuel Newburger (October 21, 1853 – July 19, 1931) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from New York.
Active in Tammany Hall, he unsuccessfully ran for the New York State Assembly.
When his term expired in 1919, Tammany chief Charles F. Murphy refused to back his candidacy for re-election due to differences that developed between them.
[2] Newburger died of heart disease in his suite in the Hotel Champlain in Bluff Point on July 19, 1931.
The honorary pallbearers included Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo and Associate Judge Irving Lehman of the Court of Appeals, Presiding Justice Edward R. Finch of the Appellate Division, former Presiding Justice Victor J. Dowling of the Appellate Division, Federal Judge William Bondy, Supreme Court Justices Joseph M. Callahan, Albert Cohn, William T. Collins, John F. Carew, John Ford, and Bernard L. Shientag, and former Supreme Court Justices John Proctor Clarke, Francis B. Delehanty, and M. Warley Platzek.