He was one of the very few downstate politicians to hold the Senate Majority Leader position and the first Long Islander to hold the position.
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He was ousted during the Thanksgiving holiday in 1994 by allies of then Governor-elect George Pataki and replaced by Joseph Bruno.
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"I don't know if they are immature or premature", said critic Ralph J. Gleason.
Ralph J. Lamberti (contemporary), American local politician from Staten Island, New York
Ralph J. Bunche House, Los Angeles, California, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California
Ralph Johnson Bunche House, the home in Queens, New York, where Bunche lived for 30 years until his death in 1971.
Gleason was a contributing editor to Ramparts, a prominent leftist magazine based in San Francisco, but quit after editor Warren Hinckle criticized the city's growing hippie population.
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In the later 1960s, Gleason was a widely respected commentator and he chose to write supportively of the better cut of the Bay Area rock bands, such as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.
Beginning in 1951, Menconi and his wife Marjorie Ewen and their children Ralph II and Susan lived in Pleasantville, NY, where Menconi was very active in civic affairs, serving on the village’s Board of Trustees and as Police Commissioner.
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His other three-dimensional works include a statue of Christ at the Cathedral of Nassau, Bahamas, and large busts and fountains on the campuses of Pace University in NYC and Pleasantville, NY, and DePaul University in Indiana.
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Among his more than 900 works, Menconi created medals for the National Book Award, New York University Law School, Kenyon College, Hamilton College, the Capitol Historical Society in Washington, and the New York Historical Society.
His essays and criticism concentrated on 20th Century poets such as Roethke, Edith Sitwell and Wallace Stevens.
In 1963, he and his partners, Daniel Aaron and Julian A. Brodsky, purchased for $500,000, a 1,200-subscriber cable TV operator in Tupelo, Mississippi called American Cable Systems.
Ralph J. Roberts (born 1920), co-founder of Comcast Communications