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Bill Thompson (New York politician)
William Colridge "Bill" or "Billy" Thompson, Jr. (born July 10, 1953)〔("William Thompson's Challenges" ), ''The Brooklyn Rail'', Apr-May 2003〕〔("Rudy Choice Called a Can-Do Politician" ), ''Daily News'', July 9, 1996〕〔("Race for Bookkeeper in Chief: Dull but Significant" ), ''New York Times'', Aug. 25, 2001〕 was the 42nd Comptroller of New York City. Sworn into office on January 1, 2002, he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1, 2006. He did not seek re-election in 2009, instead running for mayor, and was succeeded as comptroller by John Liu.
Thompson ran unsuccessfully in the 2009 election for Mayor of New York as the nominee of the Democratic and Working Families parties,〔("Emboldened, Thompson Presses His Mayoral Bid" ), ''New York Times'', May 27, 2009〕 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in the 2013 election for mayor.
==Early life and education==
Thompson was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.〔 He is the son of Elaine Thompson, a New York City public-school teacher, and William C. Thompson, Sr., formerly a prominent Brooklyn Democratic Party leader, City Councilman, State Senator and judge on New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.〔("A Historic Moment, Through One Prominent Brooklyn Family’s Perspective )", ''New York Times, Jan. 17, 2009〕〔("Battle at the Board of Education: The Challenger" ), ''New York Times'', July 9, 1996〕 His grandparents immigrated to New York City from St. Kitts in the Caribbean. Thompson attended Midwood High School, a public school in Brooklyn, and graduated from Tufts University in 1974.
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