Emanuel Celler
Emanuel Celler
Emanuel Cellerwas an American politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He was defeated in the 1972 primary, becoming the most senior Representative ever at that time to lose a primary. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 May 1888
CountryUnited States of America
The power to investigate is a great public trust.
Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.