Raymond J. McGrath

Raymond Joseph ( Ray ) McGrath ( born March 27, 1942 in Valley Stream, New York) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 1993 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Raymond Joseph McGrath was born during the Second World War in Valley Stream. He attended private schools and graduated in 1959 at the Valley Stream High School. Then he went to the State University of New York at Brockport, he with a Bachelor of Science degree left again in 1963. His Master of Arts he made in 1968 at New York University in New York City. Then he worked as a teacher and writer. Between 1965 and 1971 worked as Deputy Commissioner in Hempstead Parks and Recreation Bureau. Then he sat 1976-1980 in the New York State Assembly.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1980 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Wydler on January 4, 1981. He was re-elected five times in a row. Since he gave up a seventh candidacy in 1992, he retired after January 3, 1993 in the Congress.

In January 1993 he founded with Congressman Thomas Downey Downey McGrath Group, Inc., a consulting company in government affairs. In this context, represented his partner Dubai Ports World in Congress, the deraufhin approved a controversial port business. Downey argued his actions with the following statements: "they would have made ​​this country more secure " because " DP World is one of the few companies That Could have worked with us to truly Improve Security, Both at home and abroad". McGrath is president of a national brewers association. He now lives in Valley Stream.