Editing Roy Cohn (section)

==Early life and education==
Born to an affluent [[Jewish]] family in [[the Bronx]], New York City, Cohn was the only child of Dora ({{nee}} Marcus)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A12FA385E137A93C4A9178DD85F438685F9|title=Mrs. Albert C. Cohn Dies. Roy Cohn's Mother, 74 |date=June 6, 1967|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 4, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104203619/https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A12FA385E137A93C4A9178DD85F438685F9|archive-date=November 4, 2013|url-status=dead|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and Justice [[Albert C. Cohn]]; Cohn's father was an [[Assistant District Attorney|assistant district attorney]] of Bronx County at the time, who was appointed as a judge of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, later in his life.<ref>{{cite web |title=Albert Cohn |url=https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/albert-cohn/ |website=Historical Society of the New York Courts |access-date=October 29, 2022}}</ref><ref name="NYTObit">{{cite news |last=Krebs |first=Albin |date=August 3, 1986 |title=Roy Cohn, Aide to McCarthy and Fiery Lawyer, Dies at 59 |url=https://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/aids/080386sci-aids.html |access-date=December 26, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> His maternal great-uncle was [[Joshua Lionel Cowen]], the founder and long-time owner of the [[Lionel Corporation]], a manufacturer of toy trains.<ref name=lionel>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joshua-lionel-cowen|title=Joshua Lionel Cowen|encyclopedia=[[Jewish Virtual Library|JVL]]|access-date=October 15, 2019}}</ref>

Cohn and his mother were close; they lived together until her death in 1967 and she was constantly attentive to his grades, appearance and relationships.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Marcus|first=David L.|date=September 27, 2019|title=5 Things You May Not Know About My Vile, Malicious Cousin Roy Cohn (Guest Blog)|url=https://www.thewrap.com/roy-cohn-cousin-5-things-to-know/|access-date=June 20, 2020|website=[[TheWrap]]}}</ref> When Cohn's father insisted that his son be sent to a summer camp, his mother rented a house near the camp and her presence cast a pall over his experience. In personal interactions, Cohn showed tenderness which was absent from his public persona, but he was vain and deeply insecure.<ref name=":2" />

Cohn's maternal grandfather Joseph S. Marcus founded the [[Bank of United States]] in 1913. The bank failed in 1931 during the [[Great Depression]], and its then-president Bernie Marcus, Cohn's uncle, was convicted of fraud. Bernie Marcus was imprisoned at [[Sing Sing]], and the young Cohn frequently visited him there.<ref name="vanityfair">{{cite news |last=Brenner |first=Marie |authorlink=Marie Brenner |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship |title=How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn's Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=June 28, 2017 |access-date=August 7, 2021 |archive-date=August 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808020730/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship}}</ref> 

After attending [[Ethical Culture Fieldston School|Fieldston School]] and the [[Horace Mann School]] and completing studies at [[Columbia College (New York)|Columbia University]] in 1946, Cohn graduated from [[Columbia Law School]] at the age of 20.<ref>{{cite news|first=Walter|last=Goodman|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5DB123DF935A25753C1A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=In Business for Profit; Imagine That? |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date= October 16, 1994|access-date= April 4, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/04/22/archives/in-a-neutral-corner-roy-marcus-cohn.html |title=In a Neutral Corner; Roy Marcus Cohn |work=[[The New York Times]]|date= April 22, 1960|access-date= April 4, 2008|quote=By the time he was 20, Cohn, an alumnus of the Fieldston School in …}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_008|title=Columbia College Today |date=1961 |publisher=Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development|location=New York, N.Y.}}</ref>