In World War II, he served with the Coast Guard on antisubmarine duty in the Atlantic and with the Navy in the Okinawa campaign in the Pacific.

[2] On October 19, 2006, Marchi passed out and fell from his chair at the annual Alfred E. Smith Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria.

[3] Marchi died from pneumonia on April 25, 2009, while vacationing in Lucca with his wife and other family members.

Marchi wrote the state laws to help New York City recover from its fiscal crisis and near bankruptcy in the 1970s.

He ran in the general election against Lindsay, who was still the Liberal Party nominee, and Democratic Comptroller Mario Procaccino.

Marchi was the Republican nominee again in 1973, but he lost to Comptroller Abraham D. Beame, the Democrat that Lindsay had defeated in 1965, while he came in ahead of Mario Biaggi and Albert H.

Marchi worked to improve public education in the 1980s and was appointed as Chairman of the Temporary State Commission on New York City School Governance in 1989.

He was appointed by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon to the National Advisory Committee on Drug Abuse Prevention.