Joseph Y. Resnick

Joseph Y. Resnick

Joseph Yale Resnick (born July 13, 1924 in Ellenville , New York , † October 6, 1969 in Las Vegas , Nevada ) was an American politician . Between 1965 and 1969 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Yale Resnick was born in Ulster County about six years after the end of World War I. He trained in electronics. During the Second World War he served as a radio operator in the US Merchant Navy. After the war, he was the founder and chairman of the Board of Channel Master Corp. He was engaged in research and development in the fields of electronics and plastics. He also sat on the Ellenville School Board . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1964 congressional election for the 89th Congress , Resnick was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 28th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded J. Ernest Wharton on January 4, 1965 . He was re-elected once. Since he refused to run again in 1968 , he resigned from Congress after January 3, 1969 . Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for nomination for the US Senate in 1968 .

After his time at the Congress, he resumed his previous business activities. He died on a business trip to California on October 6, 1969 in Las Vegas. His body was then interred in the Hebrew Aid Society Cemetery in Wawarsing .

Web links

• Joseph Y. Resnick in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph Y. Resnick in the database of Find a Grave (English)