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With journalist Robert Polner, he co-authored the 2006 book Three Men in a Room, which said that New York state politics was effectively controlled by a triumvirate consisting of the governor, the speaker of the state assembly, and the state senate majority leader, leaving individual legislators and their constituents without power. [1]
William Barnes was born in Albany, New York on November 17, 1866, [1] the son of William Barnes Sr. (1824–1913) and Emily Peck Weed (1827–1889). [2] His father was an attorney who helped organize the first New York State convention of the new Republican Party in 1854, and served as state Insurance Commissioner from 1860 to 1870, the first person to hold the position after it was created. [3]
The book details one of the biggest news stories of 1913; the rise, achievement and fall of the first and only Governor in New York to be impeached, William Sulzer. Carefully researched by O'Donnell, the book examines what he explains as "the unique events that allowed history to remember Sulzer as the 'wronged reformer' and kept the true story ...
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Bruno was a member of the New York State Senate from 1977 to 2008, sitting in the 182nd, 183rd, 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th, 189th, 190th, 191st, 192nd, 193rd, 194th, 195th, 196th, and 197th New York State Legislatures. He was elected Temporary President of the New York State Senate on November 25, 1994, ousting the incumbent Ralph J ...
Following each decennial census, the New York Redistricting Commission forms to redraw the state's congressional districts. New York currently has 26 House districts. In the 119th Congress, 19 of New York's seats are held by Democrats and 7 are held by Republicans: New York's 1st congressional district represented by Nick LaLota (R)
Sheldon Silver (February 13, 1944 – January 24, 2022) was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney from New York City who served as Speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1994 to 2015. A native of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Silver served in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015. In 1994, he was elected as Speaker ...
John C. Walker,The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones at Tammany 1920:1970, New York: State University New York Press, 1989. Paterson, David Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity. New York, New York, 2020; David N. Dinkins, A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic, PublicAffairs Books, 2013