Sean Patrick Maloney is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 18th congressional district since 2013. He is the first openly gay person elected to Congress from New York. Maloney ran for the New York Attorney General in the 2018 election, losing to Letitia James in the Democratic primary.
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Sean Patrick Maloney is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 18th congressional district since 2013. He is the first openly gay person elected to Congress from New York. Maloney ran for the New York Attorney General in the 2018 election, losing to Letitia James in the Democratic primary. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Hanover, New Hampshire. He earned his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He entered politics as a volunteer for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns, and later served as his senior West Wing adviser and White House Staff Secretary. He worked as an executive at a software company and as an attorney before he was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012. He campaigned as a moderate and is a member of the centrist New Democrat Coalition. He also served as First Deputy Secretary under New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. In 2007, Maloney joined Spitzer’s administration under top adviser Rich Baum. The Wall Street Journal endorsed Maloney’s 2012 election because of its concerns about its opponent’s handling of the investigation of its opponent, Joseph Bruno. The New York Times wrote in July 2012 that Maloney might have been involved in withholding emails during the investigation, and admonished Maloney for his handling of its investigation. In March 2011 he joined the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as a partner.
He has been married to his husband, Michael, since 2007. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and their three children. The couple have a daughter and a son who are expecting their first child in the spring of 2015. Malony was one of two representatives Clinton sent to the funeral of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, who was killed in March 2013. In an article about the event, a newspaper noted Maloney often referred to himself as \”the highest ranking openly homosexual man on the White House staff. Maloney said in his concession speech that there will be another day when there will not be a day that there won’t be another gay person in Congress. He said he would support whoever won the Democratic nomination for Attorney General, but declined to run on the Liberal Party ticket. He came in third in the September 12, 2006, election, obtaining 9. 4% of the vote against Andrew Cuomo, former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and son of former Governor Mario Cuomo; and Mark J. Green, former New York city Public Advocate. In 2012, he was endorsed by the Empire State Pride Agenda, a New-York-state-based gay rights organization; and Karen Burstein, the first lesbian to run for attorney General in 1994. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Kiodex, Inc. from 2000 to 2003, during which time he represented the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
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