Jerome Ambro

Jerome Ambro

Jerome Anthony Ambro junior (born June 27, 1928 in Brooklyn , New York , † March 4, 1993 in Falls Church , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1975 and 1981 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. attended public elementary schools in Brooklyn. He graduated from Grover Cleveland High School in Queens in 1946 . Then he went to New York University , which he left again in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts . Between 1951 and 1953 he served in the US Army military police . He was 1960-1967 in the Town of Huntington as Budget Officer and Purchasing and Personnel Director operates. Ambro sat in the years 1968 and 1969 in the District Council of the Suffolk County . Between 1968 and 1973 he was elected Huntington's Town Supervisor four times in a row . He also chaired the Huntington Urban Renewal Agency between 1968 and 1974 and was President of the Huntington Freeholders and Commonalty . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1974 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Angelo D. Roncallo on January 4, 1975 . He was re-elected twice in a row. In 1980 he suffered a defeat in his fourth candidacy and resigned from Congress on January 3, 1981 .

He then worked as a government and parliamentary advisor. He died on March 4, 1993 in Falls Church and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

• Jerome Ambro in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jerome Ambro in the database of Find a Grave (English)