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MARCANTONIO, Vito Anthony, a Representative from New York; born in New York City December 10,
1902; attended the grade and high schools; was graduated from the law
department of New York University at New York City in 1925; was admitted to the
bar in June 1926 and commenced practice in New York City; served as assistant
United States district attorney in 1930 and 1931; elected as a Republican to
the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed the
practice of law; elected as an American Laborite to the Seventy-sixth and to
the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1951); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; unsuccessful
American-Labor Party candidate for mayor of New York City in 1949; practiced
law in Washington, D.C., and later in New York City, until his death in New
York City August 9, 1954; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City (the
Bronx), N.Y.
BibliographyMarcantonio, Vito.
I Vote My Conscience: Debates, Speeches and Writings of Vito
Marcantonio. Selected and edited by Annette T. Rubinstein and
Associates. New York: The Vito Marcantonio Memorial, 1956; Meyer,
Gerald. Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
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