He attended schools in Jamaica, Queens and Strasbourg, France.
He was a U.S. Commissioner (i.e. a federal magistrate appointed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to help with the enforcement of the Volstead Act) until 1931; and a judge of the Queens Municipal Court from 1932 to 1950.
He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (10th D.) from 1950 to 1961, and sat in the Appellate Division (2nd Dpt.)
He was an Official Referee (i.e. a senior judge on an additional seat) of the Supreme Court from 1962 to 1966.
He died on December 26, 1988, in St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, of a bleeding ulcer.