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Almerindo Portfolio (1877–1966), was treasurer of New York City under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.〔(Almerindo Portfolio, 88, Dead; City Treasurer for La Guardia; Immigrant Built Fortune, Then Gave Business to Workers Headed Bank ), www.nytimes.com, January 25, 1966〕 An immigrant from Italy in 1888. 〔(Porfilio Surname : Italian Immigration to America ), (www.lookupthe.name ), on the ship (SS Letimbro )〕 In 1908 he legally changed his name from Almerindo Porfilio.〔(Laws of the State of New York, Volume 2 ), By New York (State), 1909, Google Books〕 Portfolio rose from a $2-a-week messenger to the presidency of the Bank of Sicily and the head of a cloak & suit concern, which in 1924 he gave to six employees.〔(Radio: Cause ), Jul. 10, 1939, www.time.com〕 He also worked as a newspaper publisher, commodity trader, and investment banker. Between 1917 and 1919 he paid 300,000 Lira ($1.5 million in 2006 US dollars〔Assuming that 300,000 lira in 1918 was equivalent to $47,600, based on a 6.3 lira per dollar exchange rate as reported by (The Crisis of Liberal Italy By Douglas J. Forsyth ), page 205, at a time when the average family annual income was $1,518 as reported by (Economic and demographic indicators, United States, 1918–19 ), so the sum was 41 times average family annual income, and given that 2006 median family income was $48,800.〕) to install the first electric service in his home town of Schiavi di Abruzzo, Italy. He later gave 50,000 Lira ($255,000 in 2006 US dollars〔''Ibid'', 5.2 times average family annual income.〕) for the town's water utilities.〔Schiavi di Abruzzo, Documenti e Storia, edited by L. Porfilio and P. Falasca, Marino Saolfanelli Publishers, 1994, ISBN 88-7497-621-6., Page 232.〕 In 1940 Portfolio was a delegate to the Republican National Convention.〔(New York Delegation to the 1940 Republican National Convention ), www.politicalgraveyard.com〕 In 1945 he was a member of a joint committee of influential Italian Americans promoting Allied status for Italy in World War II.〔(ITALIAN-AMERICANS ORGANIZE TO DEMAND ALLIED STATUS FOR ITALY ), CIA Document, www.faqs.org, 4/6/1945〕 Portfolio died on January 25, 1966 at the age of 88, in Gabriels, in upstate New York, at a tuberculosis cure facility.〔 ==See also== *List of Italian Americans 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Almerindo Portfolio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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