Gregory W. Meeks (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, New York (6)
- Birth Date: Sept. 25, 1953
- Occupation: Attorney
- Religion: Baptist
- Web site: http://www.house.gov/meeks/
Education
- Adelphi University, BA
- Howard University, JD
Gregory Meeks was born in Harlem and grew up in public housing. He now resides in Far Rockaway in Queens. Meeks received a bachelor's degree from Adelphi University in 1975 and a law degree from Howard University in 1978.
He worked as an assistant Queens County (N.Y.) prosecutor, and a state worker's compensation judge. He served in the New York Assembly, 1993-98.
He was first elected to the U.S. House in a February 1998 special election to serve the remainder of Democrat Floyd Flake's term. Flake, a minister, retired to devote more time to his church in Queens, N.Y.
Meeks and his wife, Simone-Marie, have three daughters.
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