June 03, 2005
Who is Jacob Javits?
[ABOVE: A statue of Jacob Javits, a senator apparently of some purport and the person whom this convention center is named after. Could someone give this Californian a history lesson? I'm genuinely curious if a chair was involved during Senator Javits' career.\
Posted by DrMabuse at June 3, 2005 08:43 AMComments
Mr. Javits was a senator from New York. The Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress features short biographies of all current and former members of Congress.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000064
Posted by: d.p. cogan at June 3, 2005 11:02 AMSen. Javits was the chair of the Labor and Human Resources Committee. Suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease when he left the Senate, he was confined to a wheelchair.
Posted by: Richard at June 4, 2005 08:07 AM