Sidney Leviss
title: "Sidney Leviss" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1917-births", "2007-deaths", "jewish-american-people-in-new-york-(state)-politics", "queens-borough-presidents", "new-york-university-school-of-law-alumni", "20th-century-american-jews", "21st-century-american-jews", "people-from-flushing,-queens", "politicians-from-queens,-new-york"] topic_path: "politics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Leviss" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox officeholder"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Sidney Leviss |
| office | New York Supreme Court Justice |
| term_start | 1971 |
| term_end | 1993 |
| office2 | 15th Borough President of Queens |
| term_start2 | January 3, 1969 |
| term_end2 | September 17, 1971 |
| predecessor2 | Mario J. Cariello |
| successor2 | Donald Manes |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Flushing, New York |
| death_date | |
| party | Democratic |
| spouse | Marion (died 2006) |
| children | 2 |
| alma_mater | New York University School of Law (1941) |
| :: |
| name = Sidney Leviss | image = | caption = | office = New York Supreme Court Justice | term_start = 1971 | term_end = 1993 | office2 = 15th Borough President of Queens | term_start2 = January 3, 1969 | term_end2 = September 17, 1971 | predecessor2 = Mario J. Cariello | successor2 = Donald Manes | birth_date = | birth_place = Flushing, New York | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | spouse = Marion (died 2006) | children = 2 | alma_mater = New York University School of Law (1941) | religion = | website = | footnotes =
Sidney Leviss (July 21, 1917 - September 7, 2007) was a Democratic{{cite news |last = Hartman |first = Tamara |title = 1970 - A Newspaper Is Born |url = http://www.queenstribune.com/anniversary2003/1970.htm |newspaper = The Queens Tribune |date = 2003 |accessdate = October 24, 2009 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090618065435/http://www.queenstribune.com/anniversary2003/1970.htm |archivedate = June 18, 2009
Biography
Leviss was born in Flushing, New York. He attended New York University and received a degree from the New York University School of Law in June 1941. Leviss was admitted to the New York State Bar in January 1942. The next day he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps to fight in World War II.{{cite news |title= Deaths: Leviss, Sidney |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEEDB113AF93AA3575AC0A9619C8B63 |newspaper= The New York Times |date= September 9, 2007 |accessdate= March 2, 2011 |last = Groznik |first = Brad |title = Sid Leviss, 90 Served As BP |url = http://www.queenstribune.com/news/1189762421.html |newspaper = The Queens Tribune |date = September 14, 2007 |accessdate = October 24, 2009 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110615153823/http://www.queenstribune.com/news/1189762421.html |archivedate = June 15, 2011
After the war he served as an assistant district attorney under T. Vincent Quinn, and later as deputy Queens borough president under Mario J. Cariello. He succeeded his boss and was elected Queens borough president in 1969. Leviss left the office mid-term on September 17, 1971{{cite web |title = Boroughs of New York City |url = http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_NYBOROUGHS.html |accessdate = October 24, 2009 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120211145920/http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_NYBOROUGHS.html |archivedate = February 11, 2012
Leviss' wife Marion died in 2006. He was survived by two daughters, Jeanne and Nancy.
References
| title = Borough President of Queens | years = 1969–1971 | before = Mario J. Cariello | after = Donald Manes
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::