Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomo ( born June 15, 1932 in Queens, New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was from 1 January 1983 until the end of December 1994 Governor of the State of New York.
Life
Mario Cuomo, the son of Italian immigrants, he studied in his hometown of New York at the Catholic St. John's University where he was the 1953 undergraduate degrees, and in 1956 a law degree obtained. He then worked as a lawyer. His ambitions for a career in professional baseball, he gave up after an injury. Cuomo and his wife Matilda have five children ( three daughters and two sons ). The eldest son Andrew has also embarked on a political career; he was Minister of Housing under President Bill Clinton and Attorney General of the State of New York. In November 2010, Andrew Cuomo was also elected as the Governor of New York. The younger son Chris is a journalist and is known as host of the ABC's Good Morning America.
Mario Cuomo is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Political career
Cuomo wrote his first political office in 1974 when he ran for the post of Deputy Governor of the State of New York, but lost already in the code of the Democrats. 1975 appointed him Governor Hugh Carey to the Secretary of State of New York. 1977 Cuomo ran for the office of mayor of New York City, but lost twice against Ed Koch; first in the code of the Democrats, then in the actual mayor election in which he ran as the candidate of the Liberal Party. In 1978 he was elected Deputy Governor of the State of New York, 1982 to the Governor, after this time his old rival chef defeated in the Democratic primary. 1986 and 1990 he was re-elected as governor. Cuomo was defeated in 1994 the then relatively unknown Republican George Pataki, even though he was even supported by New York's Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
National attention became Cuomo in 1984, when he stopped at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, the keynote speech ( keynote address ). Since then, he is considered one of the greatest oratorical talents in the U.S. policy. Prior to the elections in 1988 and 1992, Cuomo was traded as a promising candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, both times but ultimately decided against a bid for the presidency. At the Democratic National Convention in 1992 in New York, he gave the nomination speech for the presidential candidate Bill Clinton.
Political positions
Mario Cuomo is usually considered to be liberal in the sense of the American use of the term; He regards himself as a progressive pragmatist. He is a staunch opponent of the death penalty, their reintroduction in New York, he repeatedly prevented during his time as governor by vetoes. In the abortion issue Cuomo represents the pro-choice position, even though he personally opposes abortion on religious grounds.