Anthony Joseph Siracusa
Atlantic City, January 14—Anthony Joseph Siracusa, City Solicitor of Atlantic City and former Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly died of leukemia yesterday in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He was 43 years old.
Fraternal services will be held at the undertaking establishment of Jeffries & Keats here on Sunday evening by the Atlantic City Lodge of Elks.
Requiem mass will be celebrated on Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea.
Mr. Siracusa was born in Messina, Italy, while his parents, Antonio S. and Lucy Siracusa, naturalized American citizens, were visiting Europe. His uncle was Anthony M. Ruffu, Jr. former Mayor of Atlantic City, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1930.
A Republican Assemblyman for eleven terms, Mr. Siracusa became majority leader in 1926. In that year also he became Assistant City Solicitor of Atlantic City. In 1927 he served as Speaker of the Assembly and in 1934 ran for the State Senate, but was defeated by William H. Smathers, now United States Senator, by 710 votes. It was the first time a Democrat had won in a State Senatorial campaign in sixty years.
Surviving are his wife, the former Anna Mattix; his mother and three brothers.
Atlantic City, January 14—Anthony Joseph Siracusa, City Solicitor of Atlantic City and former Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly died of leukemia yesterday in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He was 43 years old.
Fraternal services will be held at the undertaking establishment of Jeffries & Keats here on Sunday evening by the Atlantic City Lodge of Elks.
Requiem mass will be celebrated on Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea.
Mr. Siracusa was born in Messina, Italy, while his parents, Antonio S. and Lucy Siracusa, naturalized American citizens, were visiting Europe. His uncle was Anthony M. Ruffu, Jr. former Mayor of Atlantic City, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1930.
A Republican Assemblyman for eleven terms, Mr. Siracusa became majority leader in 1926. In that year also he became Assistant City Solicitor of Atlantic City. In 1927 he served as Speaker of the Assembly and in 1934 ran for the State Senate, but was defeated by William H. Smathers, now United States Senator, by 710 votes. It was the first time a Democrat had won in a State Senatorial campaign in sixty years.
Surviving are his wife, the former Anna Mattix; his mother and three brothers.
Anthony Joseph Siracusa
Atlantic City, January 14—Anthony Joseph Siracusa, City Solicitor of Atlantic City and former Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly died of leukemia yesterday in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He was 43 years old.
Fraternal services will be held at the undertaking establishment of Jeffries & Keats here on Sunday evening by the Atlantic City Lodge of Elks.
Requiem mass will be celebrated on Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea.
Mr. Siracusa was born in Messina, Italy, while his parents, Antonio S. and Lucy Siracusa, naturalized American citizens, were visiting Europe. His uncle was Anthony M. Ruffu, Jr. former Mayor of Atlantic City, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1930.
A Republican Assemblyman for eleven terms, Mr. Siracusa became majority leader in 1926. In that year also he became Assistant City Solicitor of Atlantic City. In 1927 he served as Speaker of the Assembly and in 1934 ran for the State Senate, but was defeated by William H. Smathers, now United States Senator, by 710 votes. It was the first time a Democrat had won in a State Senatorial campaign in sixty years.
Surviving are his wife, the former Anna Mattix; his mother and three brothers.
Atlantic City, January 14—Anthony Joseph Siracusa, City Solicitor of Atlantic City and former Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly died of leukemia yesterday in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He was 43 years old.
Fraternal services will be held at the undertaking establishment of Jeffries & Keats here on Sunday evening by the Atlantic City Lodge of Elks.
Requiem mass will be celebrated on Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea.
Mr. Siracusa was born in Messina, Italy, while his parents, Antonio S. and Lucy Siracusa, naturalized American citizens, were visiting Europe. His uncle was Anthony M. Ruffu, Jr. former Mayor of Atlantic City, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1930.
A Republican Assemblyman for eleven terms, Mr. Siracusa became majority leader in 1926. In that year also he became Assistant City Solicitor of Atlantic City. In 1927 he served as Speaker of the Assembly and in 1934 ran for the State Senate, but was defeated by William H. Smathers, now United States Senator, by 710 votes. It was the first time a Democrat had won in a State Senatorial campaign in sixty years.
Surviving are his wife, the former Anna Mattix; his mother and three brothers.
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