Bill Owens
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William Lewis Owens (born January 20, 1949) is an American lawyer and former US Representative from New York, a position he held from 2009 to 2015.
He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The district he represented includes the majority of the North Country as well as Syracuse's northern suburbs. Owens declared on January 14, 2014, he did not run for reelection in the 2014 election.
Early life and education
Owens was born in Brooklyn to Lewis Owens and Alice Stanton Owens, and she was raised in Mineola, New York. Bill O'Reilly, a classmate of television host and conservative political commentator Bill O'Reilly, graduated from Chaminade High School. Owens obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from Manhattan College in 1971 and a Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law in 1974.
Personal life
Owens and his partner Jane have three children and six grandchildren. Jane was an early childhood education tutor and now the Director of Education and Outreach for Mountain Lake PBS in Plattsburgh. He is a Roman Catholic.
Career
He enlisted in the United States Air Force and was stationed at Plattsburgh Air Force Base after graduating from high school. After serving as a United States Air Force captain, he returned to the North Country and has been living there for more than 30 years.
Owens was a managing partner at Stafford, Owens, Piller, Murnane & Trombley, where he concentrated in corporate law, international law, and estate and tax law before coming to Congress. He is also an adjunct professor of corporate law at State University of New York in Plattsburgh. Governor George Pataki named him to the College Council at that university in 2004. He appeared on WCFE-TV, a PBS television station in Plattsburgh, as the host for Business Affairs. Owens made $751,000 in 2008, mainly because of his law practice, according to financial disclosure forms submitted when he ran for Congress.
Owens helped establish and worked for the Plattsburgh Air Force Redevelopment Corporation (formerly the Plattsburgh Intermunicipal Development Council), which hired private companies to reuse the space when the Plattsburgh Air Force Base closed in 1995. Bombardier Inc., a passenger railway car manufacturer, is now home to the base. More than 2,000 jobs were established at the site since the military had been relocated, according to Plattsburgh Airbase Redevelopment Corporation.