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Kathleen Courtney "Kathy" Hochul (pronounced HOKE-ul; born August 27, 1958)〔 is an American politician who is the 77th and current Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York. She served previously as U.S. Representative for New York's 26th congressional district from June 1, 2011 to January 3, 2013. She prevailed in the four-candidate special election of May 24, 2011, to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Republican Chris Lee,〔 and was the first Democrat to represent the district in 40 years. She is now serving as Lt. Governor of New York.〔 Hochul served as the County Clerk of Erie County, New York from 2007 until 2011, when she assumed her seat in Congress. Previously, she was a deputy county clerk, a member of the Hamburg town board, a practicing attorney, and a legislative aide. Hochul was defeated for re-election by Republican former Erie County Executive Chris Collins, after being redistricted to the 27th district. She also worked as a government relations specialist with Buffalo-based M&T Bank. ==Early life, education, and pre-congressional career== Hochul was born Kathleen Courtney, the second oldest of the six children of John P. "Jack" Courtney, then a college student and clerical worker, and Pat Courtney, a homemaker.〔 Hochul's family struggled financially during her early years and for a time lived in a trailer near a steel plant.〔 By the time Hochul was in college, however, her father was working for the information technology company which he later headed.〔 Hochul became politically active during her college years at Syracuse University, leading a boycott of the student bookstore over high prices and an unsuccessful effort to name the university stadium after running back Ernie Davis, an alumnus, instead of the Carrier Corporation.〔 She received her B.A. degree from Syracuse in 1980 and her law degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. in 1984.〔〔 After graduating from law school, Hochul began working for a high-powered Washington D.C. law firm, but found the work unsatisfying.〔 She then worked on Capitol Hill as a legal counsel-legislative assistant to U.S. Representative John LaFalce and U.S. Senator Daniel Moynihan, and for the New York State Assembly, before seeking elected office.〔〔 She became involved in local issues as a booster of small businesses who tried to counteract the effect of Walmart stores.〔 She was elected as the Democratic and Conservative Party candidate to the Hamburg Town Board in November 1994.〔〔 While on the town board, she led efforts to remove toll barriers on parts of the New York State Thruway system.〔〔 In May 2003, Erie County clerk David Swarts appointed Hochul as his deputy clerk.〔〔 When Swarts left office in 2007, Governor Eliot Spitzer appointed Hochul to fill the post. Though she had been appointed county clerk by Spitzer, she opposed Spitzer's proposal to allow illegal immigrants to apply for a driver's license without producing a social security card.〔 She said that if the proposal went into effect, she would call the sheriff's office to bring such applicants in for questioning.〔 She was elected later in 2007 to fill the remainder of Swarts' term.〔〔 She ran for reelection on four ballot lines: Democratic, Conservative, Independence and Working Families Party, defeating Republican Clifton Bergfeld in November 2010 with 80 percent of the vote.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathy Hochul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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