Sentences with phrase «old state assemblyman»
It has been a determined and successful road to the top for Schumer, who was elected as a 23 - year - old state assemblyman from Brooklyn in 1974 before going to Washington as a congressman.
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Koch, who swept past Brooklyn assemblyman Frank J. Barbaro and 36 - year - old Melvin Kerensky — an associate of Lyndon H. La Rouche, Jr. — to win the Democratic primary and trounced state lawmaker John A. Esposito by a two - to - one margin to capture the Republican nomination, said that he would campaign evenings and weekends while relying heavily on television advertising in the general election.
If the nine - term assemblyman needs state grants sprinkled in all the old familiar places, friends in the Assembly will be happy to supply the wherewithal.
When Hinchey ran the first time for assemblyman in 1972, he was a 34 - year - old lower - rank administrator in a state bureaucracy.