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Matthew Feldman was born on 22 March, 1919 in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S., is an American politician (1919–1994). Discover Matthew Feldman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 22 March, 1919
Birthday 22 March
Birthplace Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 11 April, 1994
Died Place Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1919

Matthew Feldman (March 22, 1919 – April 11, 1994) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as a New Jersey State Senator and Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey.

Feldman was born on March 22, 1919, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Samuel and Mary Feldman, both Jewish immigrants from Poland.

He had an older brother, Norman, and a younger brother, Melvin.

He attended Henry Snyder High School.

He excelled in basketball and boxing, and joined the boxing team at the University of North Carolina.

1930

He used his physical prowess to "bust up" pro-Nazi German American Bund rallies held in North Bergen in the late 1930s, acting as a "heckler, protester, and street fighter."

He served as a U.S. Air Force Captain during World War II, and later served as New Jersey State Commander of the Jewish War Veterans.

He later attended Panzer College.

1937

Teaneck was placed in the new 37th district, along with other Democratic-leaning towns.

Feldman ran again for the Senate, with incumbent Assemblymen Albert Burstein and Byron Baer running with him.

In the general election, he faced incumbent Joseph C. Woodcock and won, 36,690 (58.62%) to 25,524 (40.78%).

1946

According to Feldman's longtime friend Leon Sokol, in 1946, Feldman was driving on Route 17 when he spotted a sign for new housing in Ridgewood reading "Restricted Development," code for no Jews or blacks.

Feldman stopped the car, called some veteran friends and staged the forerunner of a "flash" protest.

1947

Feldman moved to Teaneck in 1947 after marrying Muriel Gunsberg.

He joined the Federal Wine and Liquor Company, a liquor distribution business started by his father and uncle.

1958

In 1958, Feldman was elected to the non-partisan Teaneck Township Council and was re-elected in 1962 with over 75% of the vote.

1959

In February 1959, he became the mayor of Teaneck following the death of Mayor August Hanniball Jr. He served as mayor until 1966.

According to Feldman, the Bergen County Republican organization attempted to recruit him to run as a "New Jersey Jacob Javits."

1960

As Mayor of Teaneck in the early 1960s, he achieved racial and political harmony during integration of its schools and neighborhoods.

He served as the president of the New Jersey Senate.

1964

In September 1964, Feldman was interviewed on WJRZ radio following threats of boycotting the opening day of school and of violence.

Feldman told listeners: "But I appeal to you, I urge you not to use 11- and 12-year-old children as weapons in a conflict between adults. Do not confuse your children by telling them that the obedience of law and authority is essential and then telling them that they don't have to attend school even though the law requires them to do so."

School opened with no violence or large protests.

In its landmark decision Reynolds v. Sims, the United States Supreme Court required state legislatures to apportion districts as proportionally as possible.

1965

Prior to this decision, New Jersey apportioned its Senate at a rate of one member per county; in 1965, the state used a new allocation which maintained county boundaries but apportioned multiple Senators to some counties or combined counties with low populations.

Because of its large population, Bergen County had four Senators under the new system.

Feldman became one of the four Democratic candidates, running on the party organization ticket with Ned Parsekian, Jeremiah F. O'Connor, and Alfred Kiefer.

In the Democratic primary, the four easily defeated two insurgent candidates, Jeanette L. Winslow and Allan L. Fletcher.

The Democratic general election campaign was aided by the presence of popular Democratic governor Richard J. Hughes at the top of the ticket, and by a major division among Bergen County Republicans that led to incumbent GOP Senator Pierce H. Deamer Jr. being dumped from the organization line.

The organization slate won decisively.

In the general election, Democrats won all four Bergen County Senate seats.

Feldman ran second of the four, and out polled the leading Republican vote getter by more than 11,000 votes.

1967

In 1967, Feldman was a candidate for re-election to a second term in the Senate.

Another round of reapportionment gave Bergen County a fifth Senate seat, and the incumbents ran with Cliffside Park Mayor Gerald Calabrese.

They easily defeated Richard Lapidus, a physics professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, in the primary election.

However, in a strongly Republican year, Fairleigh Dickinson Jr.., Joseph C. Woodcock, Alfred D. Schiaffo, Garrett W. Hagedorn, and Willard B. Knowlton won all five Bergen County State Senate seats by a wide margin.

Feldman ran seventh, finishing more than 53,000 votes behind the fifth place Republican.

1972

Feldman told a New York Times reporter in 1972 that his political identity was solidified by John F. Kennedy:"'Then Kennedy came into town in 1960. He electrified me. It was that that made me go into partisan politics. I felt you had to be a Democrat. Nothing else made sense.'"Columnist Charles Stile of The Record later wrote that Feldman's "awakening occurred just as Teaneck threatened to become a racial tinderbox over a plan to integrate the Teaneck Public Schools – a plan advanced by the pioneering Superintendent of Schools Harvey B. Scribner, which created a new, central-sixth Bryant School in the predominantly black northeast section of Teaneck. It involved busing some students, which sparked the uproar."

Officially, Mayor Feldman and the rest of the Teaneck Council remained neutral, citing a separation of powers between the municipal government and the elected Board of Education.

1973

In 1973, the Senate was fully redistricted into its modern system: forty districts with one Senator and two Assembly members for each, with lines tracing town, rather than county, boundaries.