Bernard D. Rubin

Bernard Daniel Rubin (February 18, 1893 – July 6, 1948), also known as Bert Rubin, was an American businessman who was the president and chief executive officer of Sweets Company of America, makers of the famous Tootsie Rolls, from 1936 to his death in July 1948.

Biography Rubin was born to a Jewish family in Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1893, the second of seven children. His parents emigrated from Hungary. He attended public school in Brooklyn but left before completing high school to join his father's paper-box manufacturing business. In 1917–1919 he served in the American Expeditionary Force in France.

As a philanthropist, he was active with the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the United Jewish Appeal. Rubin died of cardiac arrest in Manhattan, aged 55.