 He served as president of the New York City Council from 1951 to 1953, and ran for New York City Mayor in 1953.He passed away soon after at the age of forty-three, when Halley was three years old.Other notable family members include Rudolph's first cousin Carl Solomon (1928-1993), to whom Allen Ginsberg dedicated his epic poem "Howl (for Carl Solomon)" in 1955.