U.S. Representative Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon, interred Oct. 31, 2001, is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/geraldbhsolomonsaratoga.asp.  He was raised in Delmar, New York and attended Siena College and St. Lawrence University. He served in the Marines on a helicopter carrier in the Atlantic from 1951 to 1952, and remained in the Reserve until 1959. He worked for M. Solomon, a women’s clothing business owned by his father, until relocating to Queensbury, where he became a partner in an insurance company and an investment firm. Originally a Democrat, from 1968 to 1972 he was Queensbury’s Town Supervisor and a member of the Warren County Board of Supervisors. Solomon became a Republican in 1969, and in 1972 was elected to the New York Assembly, where he served until 1978. He won a US House seat in 1978, served 11 terms (January 1979 to January 1999), and was Rules Committee Chairman from 1995 to 1999. A conservative and veterans advocate, Solomon supported laws to ban flag-burning, as well as legislation upgrading the Veterans Administration to a cabinet department. He was best known for the Solomon Amendment, which prohibited federal funds for universities which banned military recruiters.  Cemetery renamed in his honor.
https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/S/SOLOMON,-Gerald-Brooks-Hunt-(S000675)/
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