Roy M. Goodman

Roy M. Goodman

Roy M. Goodman is an American politician. He was born in New York City in 1930. Goodman is the grandson of Israel Matz, founder of the Ex-Lax company.

Political career

Goodman was the New York City Director of Finance in 1966 and 1967 and Chairman of the New York Republican County Committee from 1981 to 2001.

Goodman was a member of the New York State Senate from 1969 to 2002. [Ramirez, Anthony: "Goodman, Ex-Senator, Is Hospitalized After Choking", "The New York Times", March 12, 2008, 2:43 pm [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/roy-m.-goodman/] ] . He served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Investigations, Taxation and Government Operations [John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters: "Nomination of Roy M. Goodman To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation",'The American Presidency Project', 14 February 1989 [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16667] ] . He was considered a leader of the moderate wing of the Republican Party. His admirers called him "The Statesman of the state Senate." Fact|date=February 2007

Other service

Goodman is President and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation, a position he first occupied in 2002.

He is a Fellow For Life of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a patron of the Metropolitan Opera, a Patron of the New York Philharmonic Society, president of the Goodman Family Foundation, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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