“NY Senator” Jacob Javits Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“NY Senator” Jacob Javits Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Jacob Koppel Javits
(
/ˈdʒævɪts/
JAV-its
; May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. During his time in politics, he represented the state of New York in both houses of the
United States Congress
. A member of the
Republican Party
, he also served as the state's
Attorney General
. Generally considered a
liberal Republican
, he was often at odds with his own party. A supporter of labor unions,
Great Society
and
civil rights
, he played a key role in the passing of civil rights legislation. An opponent of the
War in Vietnam
, he drafted the
War Powers Resolution
in 1973. Born to Jewish parents, Javits was raised in a
tenement
on the
Lower East Side
of
Manhattan
. He graduated from the
New York University School of Law
and established a law practice in New York City. During
World War II
, he served in the
United States Army
's Chemical Warfare Department. Outraged by the corruption of
Tammany Hall
, Javits joined the
Republican Party
and supported
New York Mayor
Fiorello H. La Guardia
. He was elected to the
House of Representatives
in
1946
and served in that body until 1954. In the House, Javits supported President
Harry S. Truman
's
Cold War
foreign policy and voted to fund the
Marshall Plan
. He defeated
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
in the
1954 election
for
Attorney General of New York
, and defeated Democrat
Robert F. Wagner Jr.
in the
1956 United States Senate elections
. In the Senate, Javits supported much of
Lyndon B. Johnson
's
Great Society
programs and civil rights legislation, including the
Civil Rights Act of 1964
and the
Voting Rights Act of 1965
. He voted for the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
but came to question Johnson's handling of the
Vietnam War
. To rein in presidential war powers, Javits sponsored the
War Powers Resolution
. Javits also sponsored the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
, which regulated
defined-benefit private pensions
. In
1980
, Javits lost the Republican Senate primary to
Al D'Amato
, who campaigned to Javits's right. Nonetheless, he ran in the general election as the
Liberal Party
nominee. He was defeated by D'Amato, alongside Democratic nominee
Elizabeth Holtzman
. Javits died of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
in
West Palm Beach, Florida
in 1986.