Victor Anfuso

Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso was an American lawyer, World War II veteran, and politician who served five terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1951 to 1953, then again from 1955 to 1963.

Biography

Born in Gagliano Castelferrato, Sicily, the son of Salvatore Anfuso and Mariannina L'Episcopo, he immigrated to the United States in 1914. He attended Columbia University and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1927. He married Frances Stallone on June 15, 1930.

Anfuso served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II from 1943 until 1945.
In 1950, Anfuso was elected to Congress and served from January 3, 1951, until January 3, 1953. He was the city magistrate of Brooklyn from February 1954 until his resignation in July 1954, when he was elected to Congress again and served from January 3, 1955, until January 3, 1963.
Anfuso was elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1962 and served in that capacity until his death in 1966.
Anfuso appeared in the first segment of To Tell the Truth on March 5, 1957, as an imposter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal barber, Steve Martini.

Anfuso suffered a heart attack during a meeting at the New York Hotel|Warwick Hotel] and died soon after in Manhattan, New York, on December 28, 1966. He is interred at St. John Cemetery in Queens.