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I would like to thank the New York congrossional delegation for sponsoring this special order to honor Senator Jacob Javits. whose passing we now mourn. but whose life we celebrate. Jacob Koppel Javits was born in a Lower East Side. Manhattan tenement on May 18. 1904. Born to immigrant parents. Jack Javits started out his life in the New York City of the 1900s like so many others who later attained greatness. concerned only with assisting his parents in maintaining the household. and putting bread on the family table. He worked in a New Jersey factory while attending Columbia University at night. and later graduated from New York University Law School.