Category: New York

Sec. of HUD | Republican | KEMP, JACK FRENCH, a Representative from New York; born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 13, 1935; B.A., Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., 1957; United States Army Reserve, 1958-1962 (active duty, 1958); professional football player, 1957-1970; special assistant to the Governor of California, 1967; staff, Republican National… Continue reading Jack Kemp

Postmaster General | Democrat | FARLEY, JAMES A. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed his political chum James A. Farley as postmaster general, the highest political patronage position in the nation. Roosevelt, a devoted stamp collector, took particular interest in Farley’s position, and the two frequently shared ideas for stamp designs and their political uses.… Continue reading James Farley

Dir. of CIA | Republican | DULLES, ALLEN WELSH was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d’état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the… Continue reading Allen Dulles

Domestic Policy Advisor | Democrat | MOYNIHAN, Daniel Patrick, a Senator from New York; born in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Okla., March 16, 1927; attended the public and parochial schools of New York City; attended City College of New York 1943; graduated, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1948; received graduate and law degrees from the Fletcher School… Continue reading Daniel Moynihan

Governor | Democrat | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) began his storied political career in the New York State Senate. During World War I, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1920) and then suffered through and overcame a disabling bout of polio. Assuming the governorship at the onset of the Great Depression, Roosevelt devoted… Continue reading Franklin Roosevelt

Lt. Governor | Democrat | LEHMAN, HERBERT HENRY, a Senator from New York; born in New York City, March 28, 1878; attended Sachs Collegiate Institute in New York City; graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1899; employed by the J. Spencer Turner Co., textile manufacturers; in 1908 became partner in Lehman Bros., investment bankers… Continue reading Herbert Lehman

Senator | Democrat | VAN BUREN, MARTIN, (half brother of James Isaac Van Alen), a Senator from New York, a Vice President and 8th President of the United States; born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., December 5, 1782; attended the village schools; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Kinderhook, N.Y., in… Continue reading Martin Van Buren

David’s comment: His glorious political career was brought to a sudden end by the untimely death of his young wife, Natalie Wood,.Senator | Democrat | WAGNER, ROBERT FERDINAND, a Senator from New York; born in Nastatten, Province Hessen-Nassau, Germany, June 8, 1877; immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1885 and settled in… Continue reading Robert Wagner

Vice-President | Republican | ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, (great-great-grandson of Archibald Bulloch, nephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, father-in-law of Nicholas Longworth), a Vice President and 26th President of the United States; born in New York City, October 27, 1858; privately tutored; graduated from Harvard University in 1880; studied law; traveled abroad; member, New York State Assembly 1882-1884;… Continue reading Teddy Roosevelt

David’s comment: As has been said many times, Watergate may have had a differentg outsome of Celler had not lost his re-election in 1972 over the issue of the ERA Amendment. Celler was closer to the Nixon administration than his Peter Rodino, who replaced him as Chair of the Judiciary Committee. Representative | Democrat |… Continue reading Emanuel Celler