Kathy Hochul

Kathy Hochul
Hochul in 2022
57th Governor of New York
Assumed office
August 24, 2021
Lieutenant
Preceded byAndrew Cuomo
Lieutenant Governor of New York
In office
January 1, 2015 – August 23, 2021
GovernorAndrew Cuomo
Preceded byRobert Duffy
Succeeded byAndrea Stewart-Cousins (acting)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 26th district
In office
June 1, 2011 – January 3, 2013
Preceded byChris Lee
Succeeded byChris Collins (redistricting)
8th Clerk of Erie County
In office
April 10, 2007 – June 1, 2011
Preceded byDavid Swarts
Succeeded byChris Jacobs
Member of the Hamburg Town Board
In office
January 3, 1994 – April 10, 2007
Preceded byPatrick Hoak
Succeeded byRichard Smith
Personal details
Born
Kathleen Courtney

(1958-08-27) August 27, 1958 (age 65)
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Other political
affiliations
Working Families Party[a]
Spouse
(m. 1984)
Children2
ResidenceNew York Executive Mansion
Education
Website

Kathleen Hochul (/ˈhkəl/ HOH-kəl; née Courtney; born August 27, 1958) is an American politician and lawyer. Since August 24, 2021, she has served as the 57th governor of New York.[2] A member of the Democratic Party, she is New York's first female governor[3] and the first governor from Upstate New York since Nathan L. Miller in 1920.[4]

Born in Buffalo, New York, the second of six children in a family of Irish Catholic descent, Hochul graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 and received a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1984. After serving on the Hamburg town board and as deputy Erie County clerk, Hochul was appointed Erie County clerk in 2007. She was elected to a full term as Erie County clerk in 2007 and reelected in 2010. In May 2011, Hochul won a four-candidate special election for New York's 26th congressional district to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of then-Representative Chris Lee,[5][6] becoming the first Democrat to represent the district in 40 years. She served as a U.S. representative from 2011 to 2013. Hochul was defeated for reelection in 2012 by Chris Collins after the district's boundaries and demographics were changed in the decennial reapportionment process. Hochul later worked as a government relations executive for the Buffalo-based M&T Bank.[7]

In the 2014 New York gubernatorial election, Andrew Cuomo selected Hochul as his running mate; after they won the election, Hochul was inaugurated as lieutenant governor. Cuomo and Hochul were reelected in 2018. Hochul took office as governor of New York on August 24, 2021, after Cuomo resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment. She won a full term in the 2022 election against Republican U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin in the narrowest New York gubernatorial election since 1994.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ "New York gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022". Ballotpedia. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  2. ^ Ferré-Sadurní, Luis (August 24, 2021). "Kathy Hochul Is Sworn In as New York's First Female Governor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  3. ^ Krieg, Gregory (August 23, 2021). "Kathy Hochul becomes governor of New York as Cuomo leaves in disgrace". CNN. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  4. ^ Steve Orr (August 10, 2021). "Upstate, schmupstate: Who was the last governor from upstate New York?". Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved December 25, 2022.
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  7. ^ Kline, Allissa (February 20, 2013). "M&T hires Kathy Hochul". Buffalo Business First. American City Business Journals. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  8. ^ Barkan, Ross (June 29, 2022). "Does Lee Zeldin Stand a Chance Against Kathy Hochul?". Intelligencer. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  9. ^ "Kathy Hochul ekes out a victory in the closest governor's race in decades". City & State NY. November 9, 2022. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
  10. ^ "Interactive: How New Yorkers voted in the 2022 election for governor". spectrumlocalnews.com. Retrieved December 31, 2022.


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