Domenico Pugliano (1911-1992) was an American Progressive Party politician who unsuccessfully sought election to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1948.
Biography[]
Domenico Pugliano was born in Martina Franca, Apulia, Italy in 1911 to socialist peasant parents. Pugliano and his family emigrated to the United States in 1919, and he was raised in a tenement in East Harlem, New York City. Pugliano worked as a plumber before becoming a labor unionist, and he moved to Englewood, New Jersey in 1940 with the hopes of receiving better pay. While these expectation were not fully met, he permanently settled in New Jersey and became active in local Democratic circles. In 1948, he mounted a failed bid for the General Assembly on the Progressive Party ticket, after which he returned to the Democratic Party. He retired from plumbing in 1976, and he died in 1992.