Joseph James Maraziti (June 15, 1912 – May 20, 1991) was a one-term

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from

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from 1973 to 1975.

Early life and career

Maraziti was born in

Boonton, New Jersey Boonton is a Town (New Jersey), town in Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 8,815, an increase of 468 (+5.6%) from the 2010 United States census, 20 ...

and attended the public schools. He attended

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and received his law degree from the New Jersey Law School in 1937. He served in the Citizens Military Training Corps and as an Infantry and Judge Advocate, beginning in 1931. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1938 and commenced a legal practice in Boonton.

Political career

He served as a legislative secretary for the

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from 1931 to 1934, and again from 1938 to 1940. He was legislative secretary to New Jersey assembly from 1936 to 1937.

Boonton Boonton is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 8,815, an increase of 468 (+5.6%) from the 2010 census count of 8,347, which in turn reflected a decline of 149 (− ...

Municipal Court Judge from 1940 to 1947. He was an assistant prosecutor, Morris County from 1950 to 1953. He served as a member of the

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from 1958 to 1967, and in the

from 1968 to 1972. Majority whip, 1972. He served as a delegate to New Jersey State Republican convention, 1966. He was an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention, 1968.

Congress

Maraziti was elected as a

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to the Ninety-third Congress (January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975). In 1974, Maraziti was one of the 38 House Judiciary Committee members who considered articles of impeachment against

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during the

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, consistently voting with the one-third Republican bloc against impeachment. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress. He resumed the practice of law. He was a resident of

, until his death there on May 20, 1991.

References

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