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John Anthony Zaccaro (born April 5, 1933) is the husband of the U.S. House of Representatives member and Democratic Party 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Anne Ferraro is an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives....
 (D-NY). He is a successful real estate
Real estate

Real estate is a law term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is fixed in location. developer and owner of P. Zaccaro & Company, which was founded by his father. The company acts as a landlord for properties in the Little Italy
Little Italy, Manhattan

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, Chinatown
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, and East Side
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 areas of Manhattan
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 and in Queens.

He was born in the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

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 neighborhood, to Italian American
Italian American

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 parents born in the U.S.






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John Anthony Zaccaro (born April 5, 1933) is the husband of the U.S. House of Representatives member and Democratic Party 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Anne Ferraro is an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives....
 (D-NY). He is a successful real estate
Real estate

Real estate is a law term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is fixed in location. developer and owner of P. Zaccaro & Company, which was founded by his father. The company acts as a landlord for properties in the Little Italy
Little Italy, Manhattan

This article is about the neighborhood currently known as Little Italy in Lower Manhattan. For the neighborhood once known as Little Italy in Upper Manhattan, see Italian Harlem....
, Chinatown
Chinatown, Manhattan

||-||-||-||}The Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan — a borough of New York City — is an ethnic enclave with a large population of Han Chinese immigrants, similar to Chinatown districts in other United States cities....
, and East Side
East Side (Manhattan)

The East Side of Manhattan refers to the side of Manhattan Island which abuts the East River and faces Brooklyn and Queens . Fifth Avenue, Central Park, and lower Broadway separate it from the West Side....
 areas of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 and in Queens.

He was born in the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, United States. It is bound by 65th Street on the north, Interstate 278 on the east, and the Belt Parkway-Shore Road on the west....
 neighborhood, to Italian American
Italian American

An Italian American is an United States of Italians descent and/or dual citizenship. The phrase refers to someone born in the United States or who has immigrated to the United States and is of Italian heritage....
 parents born in the U.S. When an infant the family moved, and he grew up in Forest Hills, New York. He attended Loyola School
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 and Rhodes Preparatory School
Rhodes Preparatory School

Rhodes Preparatory School was a independent school school located at 11 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City, USA. There was a lower school with students in seventh and eighth grades and an upper school for students from grades nine through twelve....
, both in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
. A severe football injury left him unavailable for the draft, but he nonetheless joined the United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps

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 Platoon Leaders Class
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, becoming a second lieutenant
Second Lieutenant

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. At the same time he attended Iona College
Iona College

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 from 1951 to 1955 and graduated with a degree in business administration.

Zaccaro and Ferraro met in 1954, when she was a sophomore at Marymount Manhattan College
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount Manhattan College is a small, coeducational liberal arts college located in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Marymount Manhattan's campus is located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan....
. They became engaged in August 1959, and married on July 16, 1960. They have three children, Donna (born 1962), John Jr. (born 1964), and Laura (born 1966).

During his wife's campaign for vice president, he became the center of controversy due to their finances and his refusal to release his separately-filed tax returns. Ultimately they were submitted.

Zaccaro's business associations have also created controversy, and they and the couple's finances again became a damaging issue during her 1992 Senate Democratic primary campaign (which she entered as the front-runner, and lost by a close margin). Zaccaro was not an issue in her 1998 Senate Democratic primary campaign, which she also lost.

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