List of People From The Bronx - Government and Politics

Government and Politics

  • Bella Abzug (1920–1998) – Congresswoman and international feminist leader
  • Herman Badillo (born 1929) – former New York City housing official, Bronx Borough President, Congressman and CUNY board of trustees chair
  • Adolfo Carrión, Jr. – former Bronx Borough President tapped by President Barack Obama to be Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
  • Gray Davis (born 1942) – former Governor of California
  • Louis Farrakhan (born 1933) – Black Muslim leader
  • Luis A. Gonzalez – first Latino to be named Presiding Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, First Judicial Department
  • Alan Grayson (born 1958) – former Democratic Congressman, Florida
  • Eric Holder (born 1951) – first African American-appointed United States Attorney General.
  • Martin Jezer (1940–2005) – progressive activist in New York and Vermont; leader of stutterers' self-help movement.
  • Benjamin Kaplan (1911–2010) – law professor, judge, crafter of Nuremberg Trials indicments
  • Ed Koch (born 1924) – politician; former U.S. Representative who became a three-term Mayor of New York City
  • Kenneth Kronberg (1948–2007) – leading member of LaRouche Movement
  • Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882–1947) – former Mayor of New York City
  • Nita Lowey (born 1937) – Congresswoman since 1988 whose Westchester district once included parts of the Bronx and Queens
  • Norman Marcus – former general counsel, New York City Planning Commission
  • Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) – revolutionary war statesman
  • Michael Mukasey (born 1941) – former U.S. judge and U.S. Attorney General (under George W. Bush
  • Colin Powell (born 1937) – former United States Secretary of State
  • Anthony Romero (born 1965) – executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union
  • Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) – U.S. President who spent boyhood summers at Wave Hill in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City
  • Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954) – federal appeals court judge, New York; appointed by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Eliot Spitzer (born 1959) – politician and television talk-show host; former New York State Attorney General (1999–2006); Governor of New York (2007–2008)
  • Charles Urstadt – gubernatorial advisor and appointee most noted for development of Battery Park City and as namesake of contentious Urstadt Law

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