Louis Capozzoli

Louis Joseph Capozzoli (March 6, 1901 - October 8, 1982) was a United States Representative from New York.

Born in Cosenza, Italy, he emigrated to the United States in 1906 and attended the public schools in New York City. In 1922 he graduated from the law department of Fordham University and in 1923 was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in New York City. He was assistant district attorney of New York County from 1930 to 1937 and a member of the New York State Assembly in 1939 and 1940.

Capozzoli was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1945. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1944 and resumed the practice of law. In 1946 he was elected a justice of the New York City Court and served from 1947 to 1950. He was elected to the Court of General Sessions of the County of New York in 1950, and served until January 1957; he was then appointed and served as a judge of the New York Supreme Court from January 21, 1957 to December 31, 1957. He was elected to the New York Supreme Court for a fourteen-year term and was appointed as associate justice of the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court, First Judicial Department on April 29, 1966. He was a resident of New York City until his death there in 1982.

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