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Page 2 Fort Worth Section I
Texas Jewish Post
CHANUKAH ISSUE Thursday, November 29, 1956
POSTREPORT
Jacob Javits Becomes Ninth Senator Of Jewish Faith Since 1845
WASHINGTON — Jacob ish Senators were Judah P.
Koppel Javits, a product of
New York’s lower East Side,
will be sworn in next January
as the ninth U. S. Senator of
Jewish Faith.
David Levy Yulee was the
first Jew to serve in the U. S.
Senate. He represented Flori-
da from 1845 to 1851 and again
from 1855 to 1861. Other Jew-
Benjamin who later became a
Confederate leader, Louisiana,
1879-1885; Joseph Simon, Ore-
gon, 1897-1903; Isador Rayner,
Maryland, 1905-1912; Simon
Guggenheim, Colorado, 1907-
1913; and Herbert H. Lehman,
New York, 1949-1956. Sen.
Richard Neuberger was elect-
ed in 1954 from Oregon and
his term continues.
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Javits, a Republican, was
serving as Attorney General
of New York State when he
ran against Mayor Wagner of
New York City. The prize was
the Senate seat vacated by the
retirement of Sen. Lehman.
After a virgorous campaign in
which he was strongly support-
ed by President Eisenhower,
the 52-year-old Javits triumph-
ed.
His life has been a fulfill-
ment of dreams of America en-
visioned in European ghettos.
Javits’ father made pants on
the lower East Side. His mother
helped support the family by
selling toys from a pushcart.
Javits’ introduction to poli-
tics came in his childhood. His
father rose from pants-maker
to Tammany Representative
for three shabby tenement
buildings. The senior Javits
tended to custodial duties as
well as to the political orienta-
tion of tenants.
A prophetic comment on
Javits’ success is to be found
under his picture in his high
school yearbook. The inscrip-
tion says: “You can’t tell from
first appearances.” His first job
netted1 him $75 a week as a
printing ink salesman. Later,
his older brother, Bedjamin,
turned over a bill collection
business to him. In 1924 he be-
came a clerk in his brother’s
law firm. He passed the bar in
1927 and joined Benjamin in
law practice in the firm of
Javits & Javits.
By 1940 Javits was known
as an enthusiastic young back-
er of the late Fiorello LaGuar-
dia. In 1941 Javits happened
to meet the deputy chief of the
Army Chemical Warfare Ser-
vice at a dinner party in Wash-
ington. The general complained
that the Army was having
trouble getting a certain paper
filter for gas masks. P so hap-
pened that Javits & Javits re-
presented the National Paper
Trade Ass’n.
The next day Javits made
connections through the assoc
iation, pulled the appropriate
strings, and obtained for the
general all the filters he could
use. The grateful general made
Javits a dollar-a-year man. By
the time Javits was commis-
I sioned a major in the Chemical
Warfare Service he was so well
known in Washington that five
generals attended the induc-
tion ceremony. He rose to the
grade of lieutenant colonel by
the end of World War II. At
present he is a full colonel in
the reserves.
Javits ran for Congress in
1946, having shifted his politi-
cal affiliation in a republican
direction. His constituency, the
upper West Side of Manhattan,
included Washington Heights
and Columbia University.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, then
president of Columbia Univer-
sity, was his best known con-
stituent. The area is predomin-
antly Jewish and includes so
many German-Jewish refugees
that it is sometimes called “The
Fourth Reich.”
Soon after Javits arrived in
Washington, old-line Republi-
cans found they had a heretic
in their ranks. He came out in
favor of OPA and against big
business interests. When Re-
publicans wanted to kill rent
controls, Javits voted to re-
tain strong controls. Democrats
often said they could always
count on him for an extra vote
on many crucial issues. Javits
took pains to list himself as a
“Republican-liberal.”
(By 1948 Javits’ popularity
was great enough for him to
defeat Paul O’Dwyer, the ex-
mayor ’s brother. O’Dwyer,
with strong backing, had at-
tempted to win Javits’ district.
Javits established a reputa-
tion as a fighter. When he
found that German fiances of
American soldiers were getting
and abusing treatment prefer-
ential to that given girls from
France and other countries,
he decided to act. To guarantee
an impartial arrangement, he
proposed an amendment to an
immigration bill. 1+ was defeat-
ed by a voice vote of 100 to 1.
Undaunted, J avits explained
the situation^ to a number of
Senators. He was vindicated
by the Senate when a measure
containing his recommendation
was adopted in the final ver-
sion of the bill.
Javits went to Europe in
1947 with three other Con-
gressmen. Their travels took
them to Warsaw. Hoping to de-
monstrate American goodwill,
they joined with peasants la-
boring to remove debris from
the battered streets. Javits and
his colleagues took up shovels
and filled a whole truck with
rubble.
Javits’ mother was bom in
Palestine. This might partly ex-
plain his vital interest in Israel.
Immediately after his election
to Congress, he went to Pales-
tine, at his own expense, to
study conditions there. He was
later chosen to christen the S.
S. Haifa, the first vessel to
carry the flag of the Israel-
American Line.
As a member of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee,
Javits argued against members
of both political parties at
times when he thought they
were mistaken on issues in-
volving Israel. His protest to
the State Department were
sharp and frequent. At the San
Francisco Republican Conven-
tion, he led the fight before
the G. 0. P.. platform commit-
tee in a vain attempt to se-
cure a pledge of U. S. arms
sales to Israel.
Javits was married in 1947
to Marion Ann Borris of De-
troit. They have three children.
Javits also finds time to serve
as a trustee of the Jewish
Memorial Hospital and as an
overseer of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary.
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