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Guy Brewer
Guy Brewer (January 27, 1904 – October 31, 1978 aged 74)〔(GUY BREWER (1904-1978), Social Security Death Index )〕 was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly between 1969 and 1978. He was one of the first African-Americans to be elected to political office in the New York City borough of Queens, and the first African-American to serve as Majority Whip in the Assembly. His district in southeastern Queens included the community of Jamaica, where a major thoroughfare, Guy R. Brewer Boulevard, was named for him after his death.
== Early life ==
Guy Brewer was born in Georgia. By the 1930s he was a real estate broker in the neighborhood of Washington Heights in Manhattan, where he was also a Democratic Party leader. He clashed with the Tammany Hall politicians who dominated Manhattan politics at the time when they diverted money from his district to a predominantly white one, making him a political pariah by his own account.
In 1941, he joined a large number of African-Americans who were moving to Jamaica and vicinity at the time. As a real estate agent, he sought to help create a suburban African-American community in the area. He again got involved in Democratic politics, joining other activists who sought to increase African-American participation in local politics in an era when all of Queens' elected officials were white. In 1964 Kenneth Brown won a race to represent Jamaica in the State Assembly, becoming the first African-American elected government official in Queens. In 1968, Brewer was elected to succeed Brown, who had become a judge.〔
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