Frederick Werner Preller (March 29, 1902 – August 29, 1974) was a
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State
Assemblyman from 1944 until 1965.
Life
He was born on March 29, 1902, in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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,
New York City
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. He attended St. Nicholas Parochial School and St. Nicholas Commercial High School. From about 1930 on, he worked as a securities consultant for
Eastman Dillon & Co., after a merger in 1956 known as
Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.
Preller was a member of the
New York State Assembly
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The Ass ...
from 1945 to 1965, sitting in the
165th,
166th,
167th,
168th,
169th,
170th,
171st,
172nd,
173rd,
174th and
175th New York State Legislature
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s; and was Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1961 to 1964.
He was an alternate delegate to the
1944
Events
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January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...
and
1964 Republican National Convention
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s. He was Chairman of the Queens County Republican Committee from September 1962 to January 1965.
In October 1964, Preller was questioned about his missing income tax returns from 1960 to 1962. In December 1965, he was accused of not filing income tax returns from 1959 to 1963. In 1969, he pleaded guilty to not having paid income tax in 1961.
He died on August 29, 1974, at his home at 218–05 100th Avenue in
Queens Village, Queens
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.
''FRED W. PRELLER, EX-ASSEMBLYMAN''
in the ''New York Times
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'' on August 31, 1974 (subscription required)
Preller's grandson, James Preller
James Preller (born February 1, 1961) is an American writer of children's books including ''Bystander'', ''Six Innings'', and the Jigsaw Jones Mysteries.
He grew up in Wantagh, New York and went to college in Oneonta, New York. After graduatin ...
, would go on to become an author.
Sources
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1902 births
1974 deaths
People from Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
Politicians from Queens, New York
20th-century members of the New York State Legislature