Biography
Representative from New Jersey; born in Bejucal, Cuba, January 26, 1951; graduated from Memorial High School, West New York, N.J., 1970; B.A., St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, N.J., 1974; M.A., Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., 1985; businessman; teacher; unsuccessful candidate for election to the One Hundredth Congress in 1986; Mayor of West New York, N.J., 1995-2007; member of the New Jersey state general assembly, 2000-2006, speaker, 2002-2006; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Robert Menendez, and reelected to the eight succeeding Congresses (November 7, 2006-January 3, 2023) was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress in 2022; Mayor of West New York, N.J., 2023-present.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
