Adler was born on May 9, 1862, in New York City, New York. He initially worked as an office boy and later became a confidential man and commercial traveller of a business firm.^[1] A resident of the Lower East Side, he was a tailor's apprentice as a boy and devised a machine for cutting cloth which was used in shops all over the Lower East Side.^[2]

In 1894, Adler was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the New York County 3rd District. He served in the Assembly in 1895,^[3] 1896,^[4] 1897,^[5] 1898,^[6] 1899,^[7] 1901,^[8] and 1902.^[9] In the 1902 United States House of Representatives election, he was a congressional candidate for New York's 9th congressional district. He lost the election to Henry M. Goldfogle.^[10] In 1903, he was appointed port warden of the Port of New York.^[11] In the 1906 United States House of Representatives election, he again ran as the Republican candidate in the 9th congressional district, but he again lost the election to Goldfogle.^[12] In the 1908 United States presidential election, he was a Presidential elector for William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman.^[13]

Adler was a member of the Freemasons and the Elks.^[2] He was Jewish.^[14]

Adler died at home on April 5, 1911.^[2] After a funeral service in Temple Rodeph Sholom, he was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Cypress Hills.^[15]

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