Jacob K. Javits
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United States Senator from New York |
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In office January 9, 1957 – January 3, 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Herbert H. Lehman |
| Succeeded by | Alfonse D'Amato |
| 58th New York Attorney General | |
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In office January 1, 1955 – January 9, 1957 |
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| Governor | W. Averell Harriman |
| Preceded by | Nathaniel L. Goldstein |
| Succeeded by | Louis Lefkowitz |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st district |
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In office January 3, 1947 – December 31, 1954 |
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| Preceded by | James H. Torrens |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Zelenko |
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Jacob Koppel Javits May 18, 1904 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 7, 1986 (aged 81) West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. |
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Republican Liberal Party of New York |
| Spouse(s) | Marjorie Joan Ringling (1933- 1936) Marion Ann Borris Javits (born 1925) (1947 - his death) |
| Children | 3 |
| Religion | Judaism |
Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. He was a liberal Republican who served in Congress for 30 years. He was allied with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and fellow Senators Irving Ives and Kenneth Keating. A maverick, Javits joined the Republican Party in a favorable response to Fiorello La Guardia and in reaction to Tammany Hall's efforts to control votes. He was elected to the Senate in 1956 where he served until 1981, following terms of service in the House of Representatives and as Attorney General for the State of New York.
Javits was born to Jewish parents, Ida (née Littman) and Morris Javits, a janitor, Javits grew up in a teeming Lower East Side tenement, and when not in school he helped his mother sell dry goods from a pushcart in the street. Javits graduated in 1920 from George Washington High School, where he was president of his class. He worked part-time at various jobs while attending night school at Columbia University, then in 1923 he enrolled in the New York University Law School, from which he earned his J.D. in 1926. He was admitted to the bar in June 1927 and joined his brother Benjamin Javits, who was nearly ten years older, as partner to form the Javits and Javits law firm. The Javits brothers specialized in bankruptcy and minority stockholder suits and became quite successful. In 1933, Javits married Marjorie Joan Ringling. They had no children and divorced in 1936. In 1947, he married Marion Ann Borris, with whom he had three children. Deemed too old for regular military service when World War II began, Javits was commissioned in early 1942 as an officer in the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Department, where he served throughout the war, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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