Thomas Suozzi

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Thomas Suozzi (2017)

Thomas Suozzi (born August 31, 1962 in Glen Cove , New York ) is an American politician . Since January 3, 2017, he has represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Suozzi is the son of an Italian immigrant to the United States and a mother of Irish and English ancestry. He attended Catholic schools and graduated from Chaminade High School and Boston College , where he studied accounting between 1980 and 1984. After studying law at Fordham University , he was admitted to the bar in 1989. Between 1984 and 1986 he worked as an auditor for Arthur Anderson and Company . After completing his law degree, he worked as a law clerk for federal judge Thomas Collier Platt in 1989 and 1990 . From 1990 to 1993 he was employed by Shearman & Sterling Limited Liability Partnership . He later worked as a Certified Public Accountant . He still practices this profession today. In the meantime he also held a number of advisory functions and the political offices listed below.

Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . Between 1994 and 2001 he served as mayor of his home parish, Glen Cove; from 2001 to 2009 he was head ( executive ) of the administration of Nassau County , which corresponds approximately to a district administrator, in the election in November 2009 he was defeated by the Republican Ed Mangano . In 2006 he ran unsuccessfully in his party's primary election for governor of New York . He was defeated by Eliot Spitzer . In 2013, Suozzi was again a Democratic candidate in the election for County Executive of Nassau County, in which he was again defeated by Mangano. In the 2016 congressional elections , Suozzi was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York against Republican Jack Martins , where he succeeded Steve Israel , who no longer stood in 2016, on January 3, 2017 .

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SURNAME Suozzi, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Glen Cove , New York