Background
Remini was born in 1921 in New York City.
Remini was born in 1921 in New York City.
And Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University (1947 and 1951, respectively).
He wrote numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era. He wrote biographies of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren, Joseph Smith and Daniel Webster. During World World War II, he served in the Navy.
Remini received his Bachelor of Surgery from Fordham University in 1943 and his Master of Arts He was professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Remini joined the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) faculty in 1965 and was the school’s first chairman of the history department. He later founded the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) Institute for the Humanities, which he chaired from 1981 to 1987.
On April 28, 2005, Remini was appointed the Historian of the United States House of Representatives, a post he held until 2010. Earlier, Remini had been asked by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to write a Congressional history, The House, which was published in 2006.
He retired in 2010 and was succeeded by Matthew Wasniewski.
His last work was. Remini married Ruth T. Kuhner in 1948 and they had three children. He died at Evanston Hospital Evanston, Illinois in 2013 after a stroke.
He was 91.