Rick Lazio

Enrico Anthony "Rick" Lazio ( born March 13, 1958 in Amityville, New York) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 2001 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

1976 graduated from Rick Lazio, the West Islip High School and in 1980, the Vassar College. After a subsequent law degree from the American University and his 1984 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the meantime, he was also Deputy District Attorney in Suffolk County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. From 1990 to 1993 he was a member of the District Council in Suffolk County.

In the congressional elections of 1992 Lazio was the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Downey on January 3, 1993. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2001, four legislative sessions. There he was at times chairman of a subcommittee ( the House Banking Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity ). In 2000, he opted not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He defeated the former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Lazio moved for a few years from politics. Instead, he worked in the private business world. In 2010 he entered the Republican primary for election to the governor of New York, but lost to Carl Paladino. Then it turned him although the Conservative Party of New York as a contestant on, but a little later Lazio renounced participation in the election.