Frederick L. Zimmermann

Frederick L. Zimmermann
July 1906 - December 1993

Native of Brooklyn, New York.
Elected to the New York Assembly at age 22, where he served six terms. He introduced the resolution that led to the formation of the Joint Legislative Committee on Interstate Cooperation, which was the vehicle used by New York State for its part in the founding of the Council of State Governments.
Joined the political science department at Hunter College in 1936. He served as chairman of the department from 1959 to 1968. (Zimmermann continued to be active with the Joint Legislative Committee on Interstate Cooperation, where he served 27 years as the research director for the interstate cooperation committee.)
Is credited as one of the key participants in forming the old Inter-state Commission on the Delaware River Basin during the 1940s.
Co-authored with Mitchell Wendell, in 1951, an authoritative manual on the subject of interstate compacts.
Initiated the formation of the Susquehanna River Basin Compact. (During a meeting of the National Council of State Legislators in the winter of 1960 and '61, Zimmermann suggested to a Pennsylvania legislator, Harris Breth, that the Susquehanna basin would be a logical candidate for a federal-interstate cooperative agreement, similar to that of the Delaware basin.)
Served as Chairman of the Susquehanna River Basin Compact Drafting Task Force from 1964 to 1967.