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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.
The
Zimmermann Award
Senator
John R. Kuhl, Jr. (2001 Recipient)
Past
Recipients
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