Al D'Amato
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Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American attorney, lobbyist, and Republican politician who represented the state of New York in the United States Senate from 1981 to 1999. From 1995 to 1999, he chaired
Official portrait, c. 1990s
Ronald Reagan presenting Al D'Amato and other New York leaders with a check for Westway Project Funds, September 1981
D'Amato with Ronald Reagan in 1986
D'Amato, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Pete Domenici, Jack Reed, Paul Sarbanes, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan announce an agreement on mass transit funding legislation in 1998
Jacob Javits
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Jacob Koppel Javits was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of New York. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the U
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…politics. Rising through the ranks, he held offices at the village, town, and county levels. In 1980, D'Amato defeated four-term Republican incumbent Jacob Javits in the primary election for United States Senator. D'Amato went on to prevail in the general election, defeating Javits (who remained in the race on…
Jacob Javits portrait
Javits in 1955