From 1909 to 1912, Feigenbaum worked in the Bureau of Statistics and Accounts of the
Interstate Commerce Commission in
Washington, D.C. In 1912, he returned to New York and worked for the
New York Public Service Commission (1st D.). Like his father, Feigenbaum was a member of the
Socialist Party of America. In
November 1916, he ran for
Congress in the
10th District, but was defeated by the incumbent Republican
Reuben L. Haskell. ,
Barnet Wolff,
Alexander Braunstein,
Algernon Lee,
Baruch Charney Vladeck,
Adolph Held, and
Maurice Calman.
Seated: August Claessens, William Feigenbaum,
Elmer Rosenberg,
Louis Waldman,
Joseph Whitehorn,
Jacob Panken,
Abraham Shiplacoff,
William Karlin,
Samuel Orr,
Charles B. Garfinkel,
Benjamin Gitlow, and
Joseph A. Weil. In November 1917, Feigenbaum was elected to the New York State Assembly (Kings County, 6th District), defeating the incumbent Republican
Nathan D. Shapiro. Feigenbaum polled 3,694 votes, Shapiro polled 3,184 votes, and Democrat
Martin Solomon polled 2,217. Feigenbaum was one of ten Socialist members of the
141st New York State Legislature in 1918. After losing reelection in 1918, Feigenbaum became the associate editor of
The New Leader, and wrote for several newspapers and political magazines. He was again an unsuccessful candidate for the State Assembly in 1919, 1922 and 1923, as well as for the U.S. Congress in 1924, 1926, and 1928, and for
State Senate in 1930, and 1934. He was later involved with the
American Labor Party. Feigenbaum died on April 23, 1949, at the Montgomery Nursing Home in
Brooklyn. ==References==