Ralph G. Caso

Caso graduated from New York University School of Law and served in World War II. After the war, he practiced law in Merrick, New York. He was a supervisor of the town of Hempstead from 1961 to 1965, and presiding supervisor from 1965 to 1970. Caso also served as county executive in Nassau County from 1970 to 1978.

In 1974, Caso ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York as the running mate of Malcolm Wilson, but the Wilson-Caso ticket was defeated by Democratic Congressman Hugh Carey of Brooklyn and his running mate, State Senator Mary Anne Krupsak of Amsterdam.

Caso died, age 80, of pneumonia at the South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, Nassau County, New York.

• [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/02/nyregion/ralph-g-caso-80-is-dead-led-nassau-county-in-1970-s.html Ralph G. Caso, 80, Is Dead; Led Nassau County in 1970's] in NYT on September 2, 1998

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Category:Nassau County executives

Category:New York University School of Law alumni

Category:1917 births

Category:1998 deaths

Category:People from Hempstead, New York

Category:People from Merrick, New York

Category:American military personnel of World War II

Category:Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state)

Category:20th-century New York (state) politicians