Robert F. Wagner Jr; New York Official, Mayor’s Son
Robert F. Wagner Jr., 49, son of former New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner Sr. and a deputy mayor in the Ed Koch Administration. Also the grandson of U.S. Sen. Robert Wagner, the third-generation Democrat served as New York’s deputy mayor for policy from 1979 to 1983. He was former chairman of the city’s Planning Commission, president of its Health and Hospitals Corp., president of the Board of Education and board member of the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Recently he was vice president at RH Research, a polling firm. On Monday in San Antonio of undetermined causes.
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