14 Facts About Ted Weiss

Theodore S Weiss was an American Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for New York from 1977 until his death in 1992.

Hoffman High School in South Amboy in 1946, Weiss served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1947.

Ted Weiss graduated from Syracuse University in 1951 before earning his LL.

In 1953, Weiss became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

From 1962 until 1976, Weiss was a member of the New York City Council.

Ted Weiss was a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

Ted Weiss served on the House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, the House Committee on Government Operations, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In 1985, Ted Weiss headed a committee that found 90 percent of the twenty to thirty thousand new drugs used on farm animals had not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Ted Weiss was known for his avid support of liberal causes, including civil rights, open government, union and workers rights, access to health care, removal of the embargo on Cuba, and the arts.

Ted Weiss was instrumental in fighting against the US Navy plan to station nuclear submarines in New York harbor and in blocking the proposed Westway highway plan, after decades of opposition.

On September 14,1992, Ted Weiss died from heart failure at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Ted Weiss's death came three days before the primary election for the renumbered 8th district, which would have been the date of his sixty-fifth birthday.

Nonetheless, Ted Weiss posthumously won the primary by a huge margin.

The Ted Weiss Federal Building in Lower Manhattan, adjacent to the African Burial Ground National Monument, was named in Weiss's honor in 2003.