Biography
Representative from New York; born in New York, Bronx County, N.Y., February 18, 1947; attended Bronx public schools; B.A., Hunter-Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, N.Y., 1969; M.A., Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, N.Y., 1973; J.D., New York Law School, New York, N.Y., 1987; teacher; member of the New York state assembly, 1977-1988; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3,1989-January 3, 2021); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020; chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs (One Hundred Sixteenth Congress).
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress