Liz Krueger | |
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Member of the New York State Senate | |
Assumed office February 13, 2002 | |
Preceded by | Roy M. Goodman |
Constituency |
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Chair of the New York State Senate Finance Committee | |
Assumed office January 8,2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ridgewood,New Jersey,U.S. | November 20,1957
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | John E. Seley |
Relations | Harvey M. Krueger (father) |
Residence(s) | Upper East Side,Manhattan,New York,U.S. |
Alma mater | Northwestern University (BA),University of Chicago (MPP) |
Website | Official website |
Elizabeth Krueger (born November 20,1957) is a member of the New York State Senate,representing District 28 on the East Side of Manhattan. First elected in a special election in 2002,Krueger is a Democrat.
Krueger was born in New York City to Harvey M. Krueger and Constance Krueger. She has two sisters,Abigail and Cathleen. Her brother,Peter,died of AIDS in 1988. [1] Her father was the CEO of the investment bank Kuhn,Loeb &Co.,and served as vice chairman of Lehman Brothers following the merger with Kuhn,Loeb &Co. in 1977. [2]
She earned a B.A. from Northwestern University in Social Policy and Human Development,and a master's degree from the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. [3]
Prior to elected office,Krueger served for 15 years as associate director of the Community Food Resource Center (CFRC),and she is the founding director of the New York City Food Bank. [4]
She is married to John E. Seley,a professor of urban planning and geography at The City University of New York Graduate Center and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs.[ citation needed ]
Krueger initially ran for the state Senate in 2000,narrowly losing to Republican Senator Roy M. Goodman by less than a percentage point. [5] Less than two years later,Goodman resigned and Krueger won the special election to replace him. [6] Since then,she has never faced a challenging re-election. [7] Many years later, The New York Times reported that months after the 2000 election that Krueger lost,hundreds of ballots from a pro-Krueger area were found in a Board of Elections air duct,although Krueger did not learn of this until just before the 2002 election that she won. [8]
After the Democratic party took the majority in the 2018 elections,Krueger was elected the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee,one of the most powerful committees in the Senate. [9]
In 2021,Krueger was one of two members of the senate to vote against a bill designating baseball as the official state sport of New York. [10]
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