Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon

Background

Solomon, Gerald Brooks Hunt was born on August 14, 1930 in Okeechobee, Florida, United States. Son of Seymour and Rlee Eugenia (Hunt) Solomon.

Education

Student, Siena College, Albany, New York, 1949. Student, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, 1954. Doctor (honorary), Rienss Polytechnic University, 1993.

Career

Town supervisor, chief executive, Queensbury, New York, 1967-1972. Legislator Warren County, 1968-1973. Member New York State Assembly, 1972-1978.

Chairman Rules committee, member joint committee organization congress Washington. Ambassador delegate United Nations, 1985. House committee member Veterans Affairs Committee, 1979-1989, Public works Committee, 1979-1983, chair house national defense taskforce, 1981-1989, chairman house North Atlantic Treaty Organization observser committee, since 1997, Foreign Affairs Committee, 1983-1989, 2d ranking representative since 1989, 1st ranking representative since 1991.

Founding partner Associate of Glens Falls (New York ) Inc. insurance and stockbrokerage firm, 1964-1998. Chief Parliamentarian Republican National Convention, 1992, 96.

Achievements

• Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon has been listed as a noteworthy congressman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman Warren County Social Service Committee, 1968-1972. Active Eastern Adirondack Heart Association, Adirondack Muscular Dystrophy Association. Member Queensbury Central Volunteer Fire Company.

Board directors Adirondack Park Association, Glens Falls Area Youth Center. Council Boy Scouts American. Member Task Force, Prisoner and Missing in Southeast Asia.

Former member House Foreign Affairs Committee. Former senior ranking representative Veterans Affairs Committee. Ambassador United Nations, New York, 1985, also congressional advisor to United Nations session on disarmament.

Congressional delegate North Atlantic Assembly, vice chairman. Chairman political foreign affairs committee Assembly. Founder Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Foundation With United States Marine Corps, 1951-1958, Korean War.

Member Queensbury Chamber of Commerce (president 1972), Queensbury Junior Chamber of Commerce (president 1964-1965) Lodges: Masons, Shriners, K.T, Elks, Kiwanis (board director Queensbury club 1965-1969), Grange.

Connections

Married Freda Frances Parker, February 5, 1955. Children: Susan, Daniel, Robert, Linda, Jeffrey.

Father:

Seymour Solomon

Mother:

Rlee Eugenia (Hunt) Solomon

Spouse:

Freda Frances Parker

child:

Linda Solomon

child:

Susan Solomon

child:

Robert Solomon

child:

Daniel Solomon

child:

Jeffrey Solomon