Mario Procaccino
| Mario Procaccino | |
|---|---|
| New York City Comptroller | |
|
In office January 1, 1966 – December 31, 1969 |
|
| Preceded by | Abraham Beame |
| Succeeded by | Abraham Beame |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Mario Angelo Procaccino September 5, 1912 Bisaccia, Italy |
| Died | December 20, 1995 (aged 83) Harrison, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Mario Angelo Procaccino (September 5, 1912 – December 20, 1995) was a lawyer, comptroller, and candidate for Mayor of New York City.
Procaccino was born in Bisaccia, Italy. When he was nine years old, his family emigrated to the United States. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in 1931. Despite family poverty, he attended City College of New York and Fordham Law School, becoming a lawyer later in the 1930s. In the early 1940s, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia heard him address a war-bond rally in Italian, and seeing how excited the crowd was, told him he should be in politics and arranged for an appointment to a $3,500-a-year post with the city's legal department. When La Guardia's administration ended, Procaccino became a party worker for Tammany Hall and was eventually given a minor judgeship. In 1965, the New York Democrats supported Procaccino, a candidate from the Bronx of Italian ethnicity, for comptroller, along with a Jewish mayoral candidate, Abe Beame of Brooklyn, and an Irish-American from Queens, Frank O'Connor, for city council president. Procaccino and O'Connor were elected, but Beame was defeated by the Republican and Liberal Party of New York joint nominee, John V. Lindsay, a member of the United States House of Representatives and a then ally of fellow New York liberal Republicans Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and United States Senator Jacob K. Javits.
...
Wikipedia