Robert Morgenthau

Robert Morris Morgenthau ( ; July 31, 1919 – July 21, 2019) was an American lawyer. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County, the borough of Manhattan. He also was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York throughout much of the 1960s on the appointment of John F. Kennedy.
Morgenthau was the longest-serving district attorney in the history of the State of New York until 2018.
Morgenthau died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on July 21, 2019 from a short-illness, ten days before his 100th birthday.