Jacob Javits

New York Senator Jacob Koppel “Jack” Javits, served in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1981. Javits, a liberal-minded Republican, supported monumental legislation while in the Senate, such as the 1957 Civil Rights Act and Lyndon Johnsons’ “Great Society” programs. Various buttons and stickers for the 1968 Jacob Javits senatorial campaigns, some (or all?) of which were designed Jason McWhorter with art direction by Milton Glaser. Designs were meant to reach the younger voters with the non-traditional political designs