Robert GarcÃa
Robert García ( born January 9, 1933 in the Bronx, New York) is an American politician. Between 1978 and 1990 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Robert García was born about six years before the outbreak of the Second World War in the Bronx and grew up there. He attended public schools and graduated in 1950 at the hair High School in Manhattan. During the Korean War he served 1950-1953 in the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. Then he went in 1957 to the City College of New York, the Community College of New York and the RCA Institute. Between 1957 and 1965 he worked as a computer technician. He sat in the years 1965 and 1966 in the New York State Assembly and 1966-1978 in the Senate from New York. In 1975, he was Deputy Minority Leader - a position which he held until 1978. As a delegate, he took in 1976 at the Democratic National Convention in part in New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.
He was a Republican - Liberal in a by-election on 21 February 1978 at the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Herman Badillo. After his election, he moved back to the Democratic Party. He was re-elected once. In 1982 he was a candidate in the 18th Election District of New York for the 98th Congress. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1983 to succeed William Green Sedgwick. He was re-elected four times in a row in the Congress, where he served until his resignation on January 7, 1990.
He currently lives in the Bronx.