Angelo J. Arculeo

Who is Angelo J. Arculeo?

Angelo J. Arculeo was an American accountant, lawyer, and Republican Party politician from New York City who represented parts of southern Brooklyn in the New York City Council from 1962 to 1982. He served as Minority Leader of that body twice, from 1962 to 1970, and from 1973 to 1982. During the period between his two terms as Minority Leader he continued to serve as Republican Party Leader. Elected from a district that at one time spanned Windsor Terrace to Bay Ridge to Staten Island, Arculeo for much of his tenure in the council he was its only Republican member who was not elected from an At-Large district.

A 1954 graduate of St. John's University School of Law, Arculeo is probably best known for his blocking of Res. No. 1309 of the city council that would have honored the assassinated former Beatles member John Lennon in 1980.

Arculeo is interred at St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York.