Frank D. Celebrezze I
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Frank D. Celebrezze I (May 12, 1899 – August 21, 1953) was an Italian-American politician, judge and former public safety director in Cleveland, Ohio.[1]
He was born in 1899 to Dorothy (née Marcogiuseppe) and Rocco Cilibrizzi, Italian immigrants in Cleveland. Celebrezze and some of his family spent part of his childhood in his parents' home region of Basilicata, in southern Italy. The family name was Americanized in spelling to Celebrezze after they returned to Cleveland in 1912.[1] His brother Anthony J. Celebrezze was then two years old. One of 13 children, Celebrezze graduated from East Technical High School [2] and St. Ignatius College in Cleveland. (This was later developed as separate campuses for Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland and John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio). He earned a Juris Doctor from University of Notre Dame on February 23, 1925.[2]
His brother Anthony also became an attorney. He was elected to several terms as mayor of Cleveland, and was appointed to the cabinet of President John F. Kennedy, continuing in office under President Lyndon B. Johnson.