What is Robert Morgenthau?
{{Infobox officeholder | image = Robert Morgenthau at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg | birth_name = Robert Morris Morgenthau | birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|07|31}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|07|21|1919|07|31}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Martha Pattridge|1943|1972|reason=died}}|{{marriage|[[Lucinda Franks]]|1977}}}} | children = 7 | father = [[Henry Morgenthau Jr.]] | mother = [[Elinor Morgenthau|Elinor Fatman]] | relatives = [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.]] (grandfather) | education = [[Amherst College]]<br />[[Yale Law School]] | title = [[New York County District Attorney]] | term_start = January 1, 1975 | term_end = December 31, 2009 | predecessor = [[Richard Kuh]] | successor = [[Cyrus Vance Jr.]] | title2 = [[United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York]] | president2 = [[John F. Kennedy]]<br />[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<br />[[Richard Nixon]] | term_start2 = December 4, 1962 | term_end2 = January 15, 1970 | predecessor2 = [[Vincent L. Broderick]] (acting) | successor2 = [[Whitney North Seymour Jr.]] | president3 = John F. Kennedy | term_start3 = April 18, 1961 | term_end3 = September 4, 1962 | predecessor3 = [[Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr.]] | successor3 = [[Vincent L. Broderick]] (acting) | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | allegiance = {{flag|United States|1912}} | branch = {{flag|United States Navy}} | rank = [[File:U.S. Navy O-4 infobox.svg|25px]] [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|Lieutenant commander]] | serviceyears = 1940–1945 | battles = [[World War II]] }} '''Robert Morris Morgenthau''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɔr|ɡ|ən|θ|ɔː}} {{respell|MORG|ən-thaw}}; July 31, 1919 &ndash; July 21, 2019) was an [[Americans|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 a