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2000-01-01 |
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| Name | John J. Marchi |
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Staten Island, New York , United States |
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May 20, 1921
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| Died | April 25, 2009
(87 years)
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| Contributor | nystate63 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 31, 2015 03:58am |
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| Info | Senator John J. Marchi, who was born May 20, 1921, has served in the New York State Senate since 1957. As a veteran senator, he has served in a variety of leadership posts.
Recently, Senator Marchi was recognized officially by the National Conference of State Legislatures as the longest serving legislator--at all levels--in America.
He was named Assistant Majority Whip in January 2003 by Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno. Previously he served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions. The committee had responsibilities for a wide range of legislation dealing with public and private corporations, authorities and commissions. During that same time, Senator Marchi was Deputy Majority Leader for Intergovernmental Affairs. This assignment also helped promote close relations with other state governments, the federal government and local governments.
Prior to that, the senator served as Chairman of the Finance Committee for 18 years and the City of New York Committee. In 1967, he served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
Senator Marchi, a Republican, was born in Staten Island. He attended local schools and Manhattan College from which he graduated with first honors in 1942. He received the degree of Juris Doctor from St. John's University School of Law and the Degree of Doctor of Juridical Science from Brooklyn Law School. On May 28, 1971, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from St. John's University and, in 1973, received the same degree from Manhattan College. In 1974, he also was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws from Wagner College.
After graduating from Manhattan College, Senator Marchi served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. He saw action as a combat veteran in the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters and in the China Sea. He subsequently served in the U.S. Naval Reserve until 1982, and attended the U.S. Navy War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
In 1996, Senator Marchi, working with his colleagues from Staten Island, successfully advanced--and saw passed and signed into law--a bill to require the closing of Fresh Kills Landfill by Jan. 1, 2002. Fresh Kills, Staten Island's worst environmental problem for more than half a century, had never previously been scheduled for shutdown through legislative action.
The senator also has focused attention on the areas of self-government and public education.
Responding to court decisions and city charter changes which effectively reduced Staten Island's voice in the city government to a near whisper, he undertook leadership of a self-government movement in 1983.
Under his initiative, Staten Island and the Senate conducted intensive studies on the possibility of secession from New York City. He led the drafting of relevant reports and implementing legislation and oversaw the writing of a model city charter. The high-water mark to date was Senate approval in 1996 of a bill to separate Staten Island from New York and establish a new county government. While Governor Pataki stood ready to sign the bill, it was bottled up in the Assembly by the Assembly Speaker.
Senator Marchi has also been a leader in development of legislation to strengthen public education from kindergarten to graduate school.
His longtime commitment to improving the New York City public schools led to the Senator's designation in 1989 as Chairman of the Temporary State Commission on New York City School Governance. This panel of civic, governmental, business and educational leaders conducted a two-year examination of the control of the city schools and, in 1991, gave the Legislature a package of proposals intended to improve the administration and public participation in the school system.
He is widely recognized as one of the City and State leaders who helped write the laws which saved New York City from financial collapse in the mid 1970's.
The Senator sponsored the bill, now law, which modernized New York State's financial reporting and bookkeeping practices so that the Legislature and public can see more clearly the state government's actual fiscal condition.
Under his Chairmanship, the Senate Finance Committee greatly expanded its capacity to review and assess the Executive budget and ancillary programs. The upgrading of the committee staff capabilities included introduction of more accurate methodology for economic forecasting. The net effect was a better balance between the Legislature and the Executive Branch in the budget-making process.
Senator Marchi is a past Chairman of the Executive Committee and current member of the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of the Council of State Governments, since 1965. He was designated the first permanent member of the Council of State Governments' Executive Committee in 1982. In 1969 and 1973, he was the candidate of the Republican Party for the Office of Mayor of the City of New York. In October of 1972, he was appointed by President Nixon to serve as the only legislator on the National Advisory Committee on Drug Abuse Prevention.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Senator Bruno appointed the senator to head the Senate Task Force on World Trade Center Recovery, which was to help oversee the reconstruction of ground zero.
The Senator also lectures periodically at the College of Staten Island, a senior college of the City University of New York.
Senator Marchi is a member of numerous religious, veterans, professional and civic associations, including the Richmond County and American Bar Associations and the American Judicature Society.
On June 2, 1968, he received from the President and Prime Minister of Italy the highest award that nation bestows on a non-resident: the award of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. He has lectured extensively to Italian jurists at the request of the State Department and he is the recipient of the Mills G. Skinner award of the National Urban League. In 1992, the Senator, who has strong cultural and family ties to Italy, received one of Italy's most prestigious honors, the Filippo Mazzei Award, in recognition of his public service and for helping strengthen relations between the United States and Italy.
In 1976 the New York State Veterans of Foreign Wars conferred upon him the Silver Commendation Medal for "legislative service to veterans and all New Yorkers." In 1978, he was a recipient of the B'nai B'rith Public Service Award for community service. In 1983, he received a Citation from the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York for his work on behalf of higher education. In 1994, then Cardinal John J. O'Connor presented the senator with the New York State Catholic Conference Public Policy Award.
He and his wife, the former Maria Luisa Davini of Lucca, Italy have two daughters, Aline and Joan, two granddaughters, Stefania and Francesca and a great-grandson, Giuseppe.
Senator Marchi, who was born May 20, 1921, is a veteran of combat duty with the Coast Guard and Navy in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters.
Standing Committee Assignments 2003: Cities; Corporations, Authorities and Commissions; Environmental Conservation; Finance; Investigations and Government Operations; Judiciary; Rules.
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