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Jerome Balmuth

Hamilton, New York

1924 - 2017 (Age 93)

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Jerome Balmuth 1924 - 2017HAMILTON - Jerome Balmuth died peacefully at his home in Hamilton, on September 28, at the age of 93. His vibrant engagement with life and with the world of ideas inspired his children and grandchildren, as well as generations of students at Colgate University, where he...

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I took my first class, Philosophy of Logic, with Professor Balmuth when I was a CAPSS student. He later became my advisor at Colgate. What a great mind and a great man.

My deepest condolences to all family members.

There was Plato and then there was Jerry. The single most influential person in my life. He in fact changed the r tire course of my life driving to Boston in august 1987 to plead with by law school to let me in. It worked. Without that effort I never would never become a lawyer. And I never would have changed the lives of thousands of very desperate needy people through my lawyering.