Jerrold L. Nadler (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, New York (8)
- Birth Date: June 13, 1947
- Occupation: Attorney
- Religion: Jewish
- Web site: http://www.house.gov/nadler/
Education
- Columbia University, BA
- Fordham University, JD
Jerrold Nadler was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and resides in New York City. Nadler attended a yeshiva in the Crown Heights section, then the elite Stuyvesant high school. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1970, and a law degree from Fordham Law School in 1978.
He was admitted to the New York bar but did not practice. He entered Democratic Party politics to oppose the Vietnam War, winning a district leadership in 1969. He served as a state Assemblyman, 1976-92.
He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992.
Nadler and his wife, Joyce Miller, have one son.
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