Andrew M. Cuomo is the 52nd Governor of the State of New York, serving since January 1, 2011. He was elected to a four-year term in 2010, running on a campaign platform of job creation and improving New York's economy. Prior to taking office, he served as the Minority Leader of the New York State Senate for six years, where he chaired the powerful Committee on Rules
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From 1995 to 1999, he was Counselor to the Minority Leader in the U.S. Senate, where he worked with Congress on matters of national importance including welfare reform, tax policy, and telecommunications legislation. Cuomo began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County in 1972.
He became Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato in 1983, where he worked on legislation to establish Medicare Part D and helped organize the bipartisan national conference on AIDS. Cuomo was named by Time Magazine as one of its "People Who mattered" in 1992 and named one of America's best governors by National Journal in 2005.