Joe Galiber

Joseph Lionel Galiber


Born:
October 26, 1924
New York, NY

Died:
November 21, 1995
New York, NY


Career
1946-47 CCNY (College)
1947-48 CCNY (College)
1948-49 CCNY (College)
1949-50 CCNY (College)
1950-51 New York College All-Stars (Independent)
1950-51 Saratoga Harlem Yanks (ABL)

Galiber served in the U.S. Army during World War 2. He went to CCNY after the war, and was a co-captain in his senior year. He would play the next season with the Harlem Yankees. He would later enter politics and in 1968 was elected to the  New York State Congress as a representative of one of the New York's poorest districts. He sponsored many bills in the legislature that decriminalized drugs. In 1994 he suffered a heart attack from which he never truly recovered, and died about a year later.

Source:
Obituary, November 23, 1995

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