text: John Anthony Zaccaro (born April 5, 1933) is an American real estate developer and owner of P. Zaccaro & Company, which was founded by his father Philip Zaccaro. The company acts as a landlord for properties in the Little Italy, Chinatown, and East Side areas of Manhattan and previously in Queens.
  He is the widower of Geraldine Ferraro, former U.S. House of Representatives member from New York and the 1984 Democratic Party vice presidential nominee on the unsuccessful ticket with former Vice President Walter Mondale, which lost overwhelmingly to the Republican ticket of incumbent President and Vice President Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Ferraro died in 2011. The couple's finances, and his reluctance to make public his tax returns, became a major issue in that 1984 campaign.
  Early life and education
  Zaccaro was born in the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn neighborhood, to Italian-American parents born in the U.S. When an infant, the family moved and he grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. According to a biography issued by the Ferraro campaign in 1984, he attended Loyola School (described as "Loyola Military School") and Rhodes Preparatory School, both in Manhattan. Again, according to the campaign, a severe football injury that occurred at Loyola left him with a 4-F classification and unavailable for the draft, but he nonetheless joined the United States Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class, becoming a second lieutenant.