Perry Duryea

Perry Belmont Duryea, Jr. (October 18, 1921 Montauk, Suffolk County, New York - January 11, 2004 Southampton, Suffolk County, New York) was an American politician. His father ran a wholesale seafood business, Perry B. Duryea and Son, Inc., in Montauk. He attended East Hampton High School and graduated from Colgate University in 1942. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy as a pilot of the U.S. Naval Air Transport Service, and entered the family business full-time after World War II. He was a Republican member from Suffolk County of the New York State Assembly from 1961 to 1978, was minority leader from 1966 to 1968, Speaker from 1969 to 1974, and minority leader again from 1975 to 1978. After the Watergate...