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page 120th-century New York (state) politicians
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021 following numerous sexual misconduct allegations. A member of the Democratic Party, he is a son of former governor Mario Cuomo, and ran as an independent for mayor of New York City in the 2025 mayoral election.
Kirsten Gillibrand
American politician
Mario Cuomo
Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994
Bella Abzug
American politician (1920-1998)
Geraldine Ferraro
American politician (1935–2011)
Eric Adams
Eric Leroy Adams is an American politician and former police officer who served as the 111th mayor of New York City from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years, retiring at the rank of captain. He served in the New York State Senate from 2006 to 2013, representing the 20th district in Brooklyn. In 2013, Adams became the first black American to be elected Brooklyn Borough President; he was re-elected in 2017.
Ed Koch
former mayor of New York City (1924-2013)
Frances Perkins
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
American politician (1927-2003)
Robert Moses
American urban planner (1888–1981)
Anthony Weiner
American politician (born 1964)
Bruce Fairchild Barton
American author, politician and advertising executive (1886-1967)
Steve Israel
former U.S. Representative from New York
Carolyn Maloney
U.S. Representative from New York
Peter King
American politician (born 1944)
Nita Lowey
American politician (1937–2025)
John Lindsay
American politician (1921–2000)
Carolyn McCarthy
American politician (1944–2025)
Nydia M. Velázquez
American politician (born 1953)
Kenneth Keating
American politician and diplomat (1900–1975)
William Sterling Cole
American politician (1904-1987)
William E. Miller
American politician (1914–1983)
Thomas Suozzi
American politician & attorney (born 1962)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
American politician (1914–1988)
Rick Lazio
American politician
Charles Goodell
American politician (1926-1987)
Otis G. Pike
Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1921-2014)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
American Baptist pastor and politician (1908–1972)
George S. Latimer
American politician (born 1953)
Lester L. Wolff
American politician (1919–2021)
William Carney
American politician (1942-2017)
Richard Ottinger
American politician (1929–2026)
Ardolph L. Kline
American politician (1858–1930)
George B. McClellan Jr.
American politician (1865–1940)
Vito Anthony Marcantonio
Italian-American lawyer and politician (1902 – 1954)
Mario Biaggi
American politician
William F. Walsh
American politician (1912-2011)
Dudley Field Malone
American actor, lawyer and politician (1882-1950)
Floyd H. Flake
American politician
Elizabeth Holtzman
U.S. Representative from New York
Emanuel Celler
American politician (1888-1981)
Herman Badillo
Puerto Rican politician
Jacob Ruppert
American businessman, politician (1867–1939)
Christine Quinn
American politician and executive
Charles Seymour Whitman
American judge and politician (1868–1947)
Steven Derounian
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1918-2007)
Michael Forbes
American politician
Robert L. Bacon
American lawyer and politician (1884-1938)
John M. Murphy
American politician (1926–2015)
Susan Molinari
American politician
Robert Tripp Ross
American politician (1903-1981)
Ernest Greenwood
American politician (1884-1955)
Hamilton Fish IV
American politician (1926–1996)
Lester Holtzman
American politician (1913-2002)
Henry George, Jr.
American politician (1862–1916)
Felix Grucci
American politician
Michael J. Kennedy
American politician (1897–1949)
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
American politician (1923-1983)
Henry J. Nowak
American politician (1935–2024)
L. Gary Clemente
American politician (1908-1968)