273:. Ognibene was endorsed by the leaders of the Queens County Republican Party to run in the Republican Party's primary election. However, Bloomberg's campaign successfully challenged enough of the signatures Ognibene had submitted to the Board of Elections to prevent Ognibene from appearing on ballots for the Republican primary. Instead, Ognibene ran only on the
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In the 1980s, Mr. Ognibene ran unsuccessfully as a
Conservative Party candidate for judgeships in Supreme and Civil Courts and for Congress. Later changing to the Republican Party, he successfully ran for Council and then in a rebuff to Giuliani, he helped to engineer the 1995 controversial takeover
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and served in that position from 1994 until 2001. He took over as
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in 1974. He was a resident of Queens and was married for 48 years to his wife
Margaret who survives him, a former New York City junior high school teacher. He has two children, Guy and Eve. Ognibene died of Bukett’s-like lymphoma on October 12, 2015, at the age of 71.
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