Biography
Representative from New York; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., October 6, 1959; graduated from South Park High School, Buffalo, N.Y., 1978; B.A., Buffalo State College, Buffalo, N.Y., 1984; M.A., Buffalo State College, Buffalo, N.Y., 1985; M.P.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1996; lecturer, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, N.Y.; member of the Buffalo, N.Y. common council, 1988-1994; member of the New York state assembly, 1999-2004; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Ninth and to the nine succeeding Congresses, until his resignation on February 2, 2024 (January 3, 2005-February 2, 2024); nonprofit executive.
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