Melvin Krulewitch

In January 1959, Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed Krulewitch the chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. Following the death of Benny Paret in 1962, Krulewitch cautioned against the outlawing of boxing, and said, "If it went underground, it would have all the evils attending an unsupervised sport." He retired from the Athletic Commission in 1967. Melvin Krulewitch was born on 11 November 1895 in Manhattan, New York City and died in his Manhattan apartment on 25 May 1978, at the age of 82.