Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio was born in Manhattan, New York, United States on May 8th, 1961 and is the Politician. At the age of 62, Bill de Blasio biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 62 years old, Bill de Blasio has this physical status:
Bill de Blasio (born Warren Wilhelm Jr.; May 8, 1961) is an American politician who has served as the 109th mayor of New York City since 2014.
He served as New York City's public advocate from 2010 to 2013. de Blasio was born in Manhattan and attended New York University and Columbia University before serving as a campaign manager for Charles Rangel and Hillary Clinton.
He began his career as an elected official on the New York City Council, representing the 39th district in Brooklyn, which served the 39th district from 2002 to 2009.
During his tenure as a public advocate, several educational, housing, and campaign finance policies were changed.
He was elected mayor of New York City in 2013 and reelected in 2017. De Blasio's reforms include: de-escalation training for officers, reduced charges for cannabis use, installation of body cameras, and the removal of the Muslim community's post-9/11 surveillance service.
He introduced free universal Pre-K in the city in his first term.
He called for a millionaire levy but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refused.
During his first campaign, De Blasio called attention to New York City's stark economic disparities, which he referred to as a "tale of two cities."
He has endorsed a socially democratic and democratic discourse on the city's economy, urban planning, public education, police relations, and privatization.
De Blasio's administration has received mixed approval ratings among New Yorkers, and commentators have sluggishly sluggish about his administration's city affairs leadership.
Despite an initial debate that was well-received by some, de Blasio maintained low poll numbers and failed to qualify for the third round of primary debates.
On September 20, 2019, he suspended his campaign.
Early life, family and education
Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961. Although he did not grow up in New York City, his parents moved from Norwalk, Connecticut, to Manhattan's Doctors Hospital for his baby. He is Maria Angela's third son (née de Blasio; 1917–2007) and Warren Wilhelm (1917–1979). Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm in 1983 and Bill de Blasio in 2001 to honor his maternal relatives and to emphasize his alienation from his father. Steven and Donald are De Blasio's two older brothers. His mother was of Italian origins, and his father was of German, English, French, and Scots-Irish roots. Donald Wilhelm, of Ohio, and Nina (née Warren), both of Iowa, were among his paternal grandparents. Giovanni, his maternal grandfather, was from Sant'Agata de' Cant'Eventto, Benevento, and Anna (née Briganti), Grassano, Matera. Donald George Wilhelm Jr., his paternal uncle, worked with the Central Intelligence Agency in Iran and ghostwrote Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's memoir, the last shah of Iran.
Maria de Blasio, the boy's mother, worked in the Office of War Information during World War II and wrote "The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II (1988). His father, a Yale University professor, served as a contributing editor for Time magazine and was also active in World War II. In 1942, he enlisted in the US Army and was sent to the Pacific War. A grenade detonated below his left foot during the 82-day Battle of Okinawa, and his leg was later amputated below the knee. He married Maria in 1945 and became a budget analyst for the federal government after receiving a Purple Heart. Both Maria and Warren were accused of having a "sympathetic interest in Communism" during the 1950s, during the Red Scare. The family migrated to Connecticut, where Warren became Texaco's chief international economist, commuting to Manhattan by train soon afterward. Maria also moved to her public relations position at the Italian consulate.
When Warren was invited to Arthur D. Little's job in 1966, the family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where de Blasio began kindergarten. Maria and her extended family raised Bill and his brother Donald in the '80s.' "My mother and father died early in the period I came along," de Blasio said, "my mother and father died very early," he wrote about early, and my mother's family brought me up—this is the de Blasio family.
When De Blasio was 18, his father died of incurable lung cancer. De Blasio graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in 1979, where he served in student government and was known as "Senator Provolone" to students. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in metropolitan studies, a program in urban studies, and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Harry S. Truman Scholar, 1981 Harry S. Truman Scholar.
Personal life
While both de Blasio's administration and marriage in 1994, De Blasio and his wife, activist and writer Chirlane McCray met. The two honeymooned in Cuba in defiance of a US travel ban. They lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn, before they migrated to Gracie Mansion, the traditional residence of New York City mayors. They have two children, Dante, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School who graduated from Yale University in 2019, and Chiara, a student at Santa Clara University in California. In a four-minute video released by the mayor's transition staff, Chiara spoke about her heroin use and depression in late December 2013.
De Blasio, the first mayor of New York City's history, stands at 6 foot 5 in (1.96 m).
De Blasio, an Italian American, appears in newspapers, press conferences, and Italian speeches.
De Blasio is a huge fan of the Boston Red Sox, who has expressed his "deep dedication" to the New York Yankees' archrivals.
De Blasio has described himself as "spiritual but not religious." His mother had rejected Roman Catholic roots. De Blasio was not a member of church in his youth.
According to Forbes, De Blasio and his wife had a net worth of $2.5 million as of August 2019.
Early career
De Blasio worked with the Urban Fellows Program at the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice in 1984. de Blasio was recruited by the Quixote Center in Maryland in 1987, just after completing graduate school at Columbia. During the Nicaraguan Revolution, he traveled with the Quixote Center to Nicaragua for ten days to help distribute food and medicine. De Blasio was a ardent supporter of the ruling socialist government, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, which was opposed by the Reagan administration at the time. De Blasio's return from Nicaragua led him to New York City, where he worked for a non-profit group focusing on Central America's health care. He continued to support the Sandinistas in his spare time and formed the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, which held meetings and fundraisers for the Sandinista political party. De Blasio's political involvement began in 1989, when he served as a volunteer coordinator for David Dinkins' mayoral campaign. De Blasio, who served as an aide in City Hall during the campaign, was a member of the Labour Party. When asked about his social goals, he referred to himself as a promoter of democratic socialism in 1990.
Charles Rangel, a former congressman from the United States, voted Blasio to be his campaign manager after his 1994 reelection bid. During President Bill Clinton's tenure as the regional director for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for New York and New Jersey, he was appointed in 1997. de Blasio, the tri-state region's highest-ranking HUD official, managed a small executive staff and was active in outreach to residents of substandard housing. In 1999, he was elected to serve as a school board member for the Brooklyn School District 15. He served as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's winless Senate campaign in 2000.