Victor Anfuso

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Victor Anfuso, 1959

Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso (born March 10, 1905 in Gagliano Castelferrato , Sicily , † December 28, 1966 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1951 and 1953 and between 1955 and 1963 .

Career

Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso was born in Gagliano Castelferrato about nine years before the outbreak of the First World War . The Anfuso family immigrated to the United States in 1914 and settled in Brooklyn . There he attended elementary school and commercial high school . He followed his preparatory courses at Columbia University in 1926 and 1927 . He then graduated from St. Lawrence University Law School (now Brooklyn Law School ) in 1927 . He was admitted to the bar the following year and then began practicing in New York City. During World War II , he served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Mediterranean from 1943 to 1945 . Between 1944 and 1946 he worked as a special assistant in the Commissioner of Immigration . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1950 congressional elections , Anfuso was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Joseph L. Pfeifer on January 4, 1951 . Since he on a run again in 1952 renounced, he left the after January 3, 1953 Congress of.

In February 1954 he was appointed magistrate ( city magistrate appointed in Brooklyn) - a position which he held until his resignation in July 1954th

In the congressional elections of 1954 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the eighth constituency of New York, where he succeeded Louis B. Heller on January 4, 1955 . He was re-elected three times in a row. Since he refused to run again in 1962 , he left the Congress after January 3, 1963.

Anfuso was elected a judge on the New York Supreme Court in 1962. He died on December 28, 1966 in New York City and was then buried in St. John's Cemetery in Middle Village .

Web links

  • Victor Anfuso in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)