Cuomo << KWOH moh >> , Andrew (1957-…), served as governor of New York from 2011 to 2021. Cuomo, a Democrat, previously had served as the state’s attorney general. His father, Mario Cuomo , gained national attention as New York’s governor during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Andrew Mark Cuomo was born on Dec. 6, 1957, in the Queens borough of New York City. He received a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University in 1979. He earned a law degree from Albany Law School in 1982. That year, he also worked on his father’s successful campaign for governor. In 1983, he served as a special assistant on his father’s staff.
Cuomo worked as an assistant district attorney in New York City in 1984 and 1985. From 1985 to 1988, he worked as an attorney in private practice. In 1986, he founded Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged (HELP). The organization works to provide housing and jobs for the homeless. Cuomo was named chairman of the New York City Commission on the Homeless in 1991. He later served as assistant secretary for community planning and development for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed Cuomo HUD secretary. Cuomo served in the position until 2001.
In 2002, Cuomo campaigned for his party’s nomination for New York governor. However, he pulled out of the race before the Democratic primary. In 2006, he won election as the state’s attorney general. He served in the office from 2007 to 2010. Cuomo won election as governor in 2010 and was reelected in 2014 and 2018. He won national renown in 2020 while guiding New York through the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, a number of women, many of them fellow government workers, accused Cuomo of sexual harassment during his tenure as governor. Cuomo resigned in August.
