- Attorney and former Manhattan prosecutor who oversaw celebrated cases with the likes of Lenny Bruce and Claus von Bülow.
- He was the second of two children to Joseph Kuh and Fannie Kuh of New York City. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in New York City in 1941 and with high honors from Harvard University Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1948.
- He served in the United States Army as a combat infantry man in Europe during World War II.
- He went into private law practice in New York City in 1948. He was an assistant district attorney from 1953 to 1964 in New York City. He served as chief of the Criminal Court Bureau and as Frank S. Hogan's administrative assistant. Frank S. Hogan was district attorney of the Borough of Manhattan. In 1974, he was appointed to replace ailing Frank S. Hogan. He was in private practice with the law firm, Kuh, Shapiro, Goldman, Cooperman, & Levitt in New York City. During his term, he established the sex crimes unit. He was defeated by Robert Morgenthau for the Democratic primary election for District Attorney.
- He is survived by his son, Michael; his wife, Joyce Dattel Kuh; a daughter, Jody Kuh; and a brother, Dr. Joseph R. Kuh.
- He prosecuted Lenny Bruce in 1964 regarding state obscenity statute. He was hired by Sunny Von Bulow's family to investigate her irreversible coma situation in 1980 to help convict her husband, Claus Von Bulow. He also investigated the challenge against Bernard Lafferty regarding Doris Duke's estate upon her death in 1993.
- In recent years, he was counsel to Warshaw, Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh in New York City.
- He lived in Greenwich Village in New York City where he was a founder of the Village Independent Democrats.
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