May 4, 2009
May 4, 1953:
Former Sen. Robert F. Wagner Sr. (D-NY), who served from 1926 until resigning in 1949 because of ill health, and who is best known for the Wagner National Labor Relations Act in 1935 during the New Deal, dies at 75.
His son, Robert Jr., the Manhattan borough president, will be elected mayor of New York City later this year.
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