Four years later, in January 1982, he was elected district attorney for what would be the first of several times. He was born about fifteen hundred feet from the Sullivan County Courthouse, where he eventually would keep an office on the bottom floor. Despite a slight hunch in his walk, at six feet three inches, 185 pounds, weight lifting and running had kept Lungen in excellent physical shape. Lungen was a lifelong resident of Monticello, and his family ran a small garage in town from 1919 until it closed in 1969. “I grew up in that business working on cars and pushing gas.” After high school, Lungen went to the University of Miami for four years, but never considered law as a career path. “I always thought I could come back home after college and work in the family business, but the economy, in the early to late 1960s, dropped greatly…and the business, because of the economy and the effect it had on Monticello and the Catskills, changed.
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