1. Rory Lancman was born on March 1,1969 and is an American politician and former member of the New York City Council, representing the 24th district from 2014 until 2020.
15 Facts About Rory Lancman
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Formerly, Lancman served as a New York State Assembly member, representing the 25th Assembly District in Queens from 2007 to 2013.
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Rory Lancman was born and raised in Queens and is a graduate of New York City Public School 164, Parsons Junior High School, and Hillcrest High School.
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Rory Lancman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College in 1991 and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1995, to which he had transferred after a year at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law.
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Rory Lancman served in the New York's 42nd Infantry Division as a lieutenant of Infantry from 1988 to 1992.
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Rory Lancman ran unsuccessfully for the New York Senate in 2000, losing to Frank Padavan.
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Rory Lancman was first elected to the State Assembly in 2006, and ran uncontested in the 2008 and 2010 general elections.
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In 2012, Rory Lancman sought the Democratic nomination for New York's 6th congressional district.
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Rory Lancman faced New York City Council member Elizabeth Crowley and fellow Assembly member Grace Meng, and eventually lost to Meng.
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On November 19,2012, Lancman declared his run for the 24th district of the New York City Council district, seeking to succeed James F Gennaro in the 2013 election.
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Rory Lancman won a score of endorsements, including the Queens County Democratic Party, the Working Families Party, the United Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, SEIU 32BJ, and 1199 SEIU.
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Rory Lancman defeated two other candidates in the primary and went on to win the general election in November 2013.
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Council Member Rory Lancman became the chair of a newly created committee on the New York City Council called the Committee on Courts and Legal Services.
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Rory Lancman resigned from the City Council on November 4,2020 for a position under Governor Andrew Cuomo as his Special Counsel for Ratepayer Protection.
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In 2019, Rory Lancman was a candidate in the Democratic primary for Queens County District Attorney in the State of New York.