Names of Positions

I have seen repeated names in our readings. It is not necessary to memorize any of them, but passing your eyes over them may help you recognize them in the future.

Council Speaker Est. 1986	Comptroller Est. 1801	Governor Est. 1777^{^[1]}	Public Advocate Est. 1993
Adrienne Adams	Brad Lander	Kathy Hochul	Jumaane Williams
Corey Johnson	Scott Stringer	Andrew Cuomo	Corey Johnson
Melissa Mark-Viverito	John Liu	Eliot Spitzer	Letitia James
Christine Quinn	William Thompson	George Pataki	Bill de Blasio
Gifford Miller	Alan Hevesi	Mario Cuomo	Betsy Gotbaum
Peter Vallone (1st)	Elizabeth Holtzmann	Hugh Carey	Mark Green (1st)

Bolded people are those we have encountered in this course

● Famous politicians who were once NY governor

○ FDR

○ TR

○ Grover Cleveland resigned from governor having been elected

○ Martin Van Buren

○ Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes

○ William Seward

○ Democratic nominees for president

■ Samuel J Tilden

■ Horatio Seymour

○ John Jay

● Famous comptrollers

○ Abe Beame

^{^[1]} https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/scandocs/nysgovernors.htm