Youth and Education
Carey was the 7th son of Governor Hugh Carey and Helen (Owen) Carey. He grew up in Brooklyn, Shelter Island, and the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany. As a boy, he cared for developmentally challenged people at Camp Shelter Island, and later as a young man he worked with physically challenged skiers. He graduated from the Doane Stuart School in Albany, and received a B.A. in economics from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
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