[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.\
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
Sen. 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.