Mark Eisner

Mark Eisner (December 15, 1885 – March 28, 1953) was a Jewish-American lawyer, tax expert, and politician from New York.

He served in the Assembly in 1913[2] (when he introduced the statewide Direct Primary Bill and, speaking out against the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer, became the only Manhattan Democrat who voted against Sulzer's impeachment) and 1914 (when he received the nomination of both the Democratic and Progressive Parties).

[5] Mayor James J. Walker appointed him a member of the New York City Board of Higher Education when it was established in 1926, and he served as its chairman from 1932 to 1938.

He wrote Lay View of Some of the Problems of Higher Education in 1936 and edited How Government Regulates Business in 1939.

[6] Eisner was treasurer and director of the New York Adult Education Council, Inc., a trustee of the Practising Law Institute and Montefiore Hospital, treasurer of the College Art Association, an executive committee member of the Tax Institute and its president from 1943 to 1945, president of the Alumni Association of the College of the City of New York from 1943 to 1945, and a member of the New York City Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Delta Sigma Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, the Freemasons, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Salmagundi Club, the Harmonie Club, the City Club of New York, and the Quaker Ridge Golf Club.