John P. Lomenzo (August 12, 1915 – June 7, 2004,

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) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He graduated from Niagara University and

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, and was admitted to the bar in 1939. He was a judge of the Monroe County Court when he was the

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candidate for

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. He was defeated by the incumbent

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Arthur Levitt Sr., but was appointed

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by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller on August 22, 1963, and stayed in office until he resigned in December 1973 and was replaced by Governor Malcolm Wilson after Rockefeller's resignation. In 1970-71, he was the President of the

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. He was an alternate delegate to the

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. Since 1975, he had been a director of

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. He was a partner in the law firm of Field, Lomenzo & Turret. His son John P. Lomenzo Jr., has been Town Court Justice of Penfield, New York since 1995.

Sources

Obit notice, in NYT on June 11, 2004

SEC file on Conair, at Edgar on-line

Political Graveyard

''Monroe County Bar pays tribute to deceased colleagues'', in Daily Record (Rochester, NY) on November 30, 2004

Fordham alumni notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Lomenzo, John P 1915 births 2004 deaths New York (state) Republicans Secretaries of State of New York (state) Fordham University School of Law alumni 20th-century American politicians