139:, a non-partisan watchdog group, called for Hersch's removal from the job, citing an excessive discharge rate that let too many defendants avoid fines for traffic infractions. Hersch's fellow magistrates in both parties rallied to his defense, and he kept his job for the time being. The next year, though, a change of party power in Harrisburg meant that the new Republican governor,
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traffic tickets were being written. In an interview later that year, Hersch explained that his lack of formal education beyond eighth grade was no hindrance to his performance of the job of magistrate. "A law degree doesn't make a magistrate more qualified. Living with people is more essential than going to a law library to find out what it's all about. ... If you take
163:, who was elected mayor that year. In 1966, Hersch also succeeded Tate as vice-chairman of the City Democratic Committee after Tate declined to run for the party post. By 1967, Hersch and Tate had become serious rivals in inter-party fights. Hersch was nevertheless reelected in 1967, as was the mayor.
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Hersch's first marriage appears to have ended soon after it began, but after his death, a second woman, Nell
Yesalonis, claimed to have married Hersch in January 1956. Yesalonis claimed she and Hersch kept the marriage a secret because Hersch's mother (who died in 1966) disapproved and "was very
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for his efforts to clean up the corruption surrounding traffic tickets in the city, an effort
Dilworth believed contributed to the decline in unsafe driving. In 1961, Hersch asked City Council for an increase in funding of the magistrate courts, which he said were overworked because so many more
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at the time). He went on to serve five nonconsecutive terms thereafter, being re-elected in 1942, 1944, 1948, 1950, and 1952. After the 1952 election, Hersch was the unanimous choice of the House
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