George DeLuca

George DeLuca

Lieutenant Governor of New York
In office 1955–1958
Governor	W. Averell Harriman
Preceded by	Walter J. Mahoney as Acting Lieutenant Governor
Succeeded by	Malcolm Wilson
Personal details
Born	September 20, 1889 West Bronx, New York City
Died	May 2, 1983(1983-05-02) (aged 93) The Bronx
Political party	Democratic
Profession	Lawyer

George Benjamin DeLuca (September 20, 1889 – May 2, 1983) was an American lawyer, banker and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958.

Life

He was the son of Mariano DeLuca and Catherine (Bonetti) DeLuca. His parents came to the United States in the 1880s from the Province of Belluno.

He was District Attorney of Bronx County from 1950 to 1954. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958, elected on the Democratic ticket with Governor W. Averell Harriman in 1954, but defeated for re-election in 1958. He was a delegate to the 1956 and 1960 Democratic National Conventions.

He was a vice president of the Commercial Bank of America, elected in 1959.

He lived in Riverdale, Bronx.

He died at the North Central Bronx Hospital.

Sources

Political Graveyard
GEORGE DELUCA, 93, EX-JUDGE AND 50'S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Obit in NYT on May 3, 1983 (subscription required)

Political offices
Preceded by Walter J. Mahoney Acting Lieutenant Governor	Lieutenant Governor of New York 1955–1958	Succeeded by Malcolm Wilson

Governors and Lieutenant Governors of New York

Governors	G. Clinton Jay G. Clinton Lewis Tompkins Tayler D. Clinton Yates D. Clinton Pitcher Van Buren Throop Marcy Seward Bouck Wright Young Fish Hunt Seymour Clark King Morgan Seymour Fenton Hoffman J. Adams Dix Tilden Robinson Cornell Cleveland Hill Flower Morton Black T. Roosevelt Odell Higgins Hughes White J. Alden Dix Sulzer Glynn Whitman Smith Miller Smith F. Roosevelt Lehman Poletti Dewey Harriman Rockefeller Wilson Carey M. Cuomo Pataki Spitzer Paterson A. Cuomo

Lieutenant Governors	Van Cortlandt S. Van Rensselaer J. Van Rensselaer Broome Tayler Clinton Tayler Swift Tayler Root Tallmadge Pitcher P. Livingston Dayan Throop Stebbins Oliver E. Livingston Tracy Bradish Dickinson Gardiner Lester Fish Patterson Church Raymond Selden Campbell Floyd-Jones Alvord Woodford Beach Robinson Dorsheimer Hoskins Hill McCarthy Jones Sheehan Saxton Woodruff Higgins Bruce Raines Chanler White Cobb Conway Glynn Wagner Schoeneck Walker Wood Lusk Lunn Lowman Corning Lehman Bray Poletti Hanley Wallace Hanley Moore Wicks Mahoney DeLuca Wilson Anderson Krupsak Cuomo DelBello Anderson Lundine McCaughey Donohue Paterson Bruno Skelos Smith Espada Ravitch Duffy Hochul

Italics indicate acting officeholders

New York State Democratic Committee

Chairpersons	Schell Fowler Bingham Richmond Tilden Beach Magone Purcell Faulkner Manning O'Brien Walker Murphy Hinckley Danforth Campbell Meyer Conners Dix Huppuch Mack Palmer Osborn Harris Kellogg Farley Pell Corning Bray Farley Fitzpatrick Balch Prendergrast McKeon Burns Crangle Cunningham Baranello Hennessy Kirwan Marino Gordon Hope Farrell O'Neill Jacobs

Gubernatorial tickets	Smith/Fitts (1920) Smith/Lunn (1922, 1924) Smith/Corning 1st (1926) Roosevelt/Lehman (1928, 1930) Lehman/Bray (1932, 1934, 1936) Lehman/Poletti (1938) Bennett/Poletti (1942) Mead/Corning 2nd (1946) Lynch/Balch (1950) Harriman/DeLuca (1956, 1958) Morgenthau/Burns (1962) O'Connor/Samuels (1966) Goldberg/Paterson (1970) Carey/Krupsak(1974) Carey/M. Cuomo (1978) M. Cuomo/DelBello(1982) M. Cuomo/Lundine (1986, 1990, 1994) Vallone/Frankel (1998) McCall/Mehiel(2002) Spitzer/Paterson (2006) A. Cuomo/Duffy (2010) A. Cuomo/Hochul (2014)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 66224805

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