Robert Graham Heiner

Robert Graham Heiner (1901–1977) was a 20th-Century American law partners of Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl and president of Planned Parenthood of New York City.

Background

Heiner was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins College (as was Alger Hiss). In 1923, as a Rhodes scholar, he obtained a degree in law from Oxford University.

Cases in which he worked included United States v. Morgan, 118 F. Supp. 621 (S.D.N.Y 1953).

In 1962, he retired from Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl.

At the time of his death, he was a trustee of the Erhman and Schimper foundations and had previously served as a trustee of Knickerbocker Hospital.

He married twice. His first wife, Frances Eliot Cassiday, died in 1958. His second wife, Nina King Colgate, survived him. He had two children with his first wife.

He died of leukemia on July 22, 1977, at the Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center, aged 76.