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Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957, in New York City) was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton between 1997 and 2001. He is the son of former New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo.
Cuomo is the elder son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, whose younger son is ABC News journalist Chris Cuomo. Andrew and his ex-wife, Kerry Kennedy, the seventh child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, have three daughters. The couple announced their less-than-amicable separation in 2003 and have subsequently divorced.
He is a graduate of Fordham University and Albany Law School. He was a top aide to his father during his father's 1982 campaign for governor. He then joined the governor's staff as one of his father's top policy advisors, a position he filled on and off during his father's 12-year governorship. Cuomo became active in issues effecting the homeless and housing policy in New York during the 1980s and 1990s. He founded a non-profit organization focused on homeless and housing issues, Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged, or HELP.
During the administration of former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, Cuomo served as Chairman of the New York City Homeless Commission, which was charged with developing policies to end the homeless crisis in the city and to develop more housing options.
Cuomo was appointed to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1993, as a member of President Bill Clinton's administration. After the departure of Secretary Henry Cisneros at the end of Clinton's first term, Cuomo joined the President's cabinet in 1997. Cuomo served the remainder of Cisneros's term, until 2001.
See: New York attorney general election, 2006
Some expected him to run for Governor of New York again, as a candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2006, but Cuomo decided against a run when New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer entered the race in late 2004. Cuomo declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of New York in 2006, and on May 30, 2006, captured the Democratic Party's endorsement, recieving 67 percent of the delegates' votes. Though Cuomo won the endorsement, former New York City Public Advocate Mark J. Green, Charlie King, a two-time candidate for lieutenant governor, and Sean Patrick Maloney, a former aide to President Clinton, also earned places on the Democratic primary election ballot. King dropped out of the race before the primary and endorsed Cuomo.
On September 12, Cuomo won the primary with a majority of the vote, defeating his nearest opponent by over 20% of the vote. The general election will be against the Republican nominee, former Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro on November 7, 2006.
| Preceded byHenry Cisneros | U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 1997–2001 |
Succeeded byMel Martinez |
| Preceded byBetsy McCaughey Ross | Liberal Party Nominee for Governor of New York 2002 |
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