Tim Bishop
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Timothy H. Bishop (b. June 1, 1950) is a politician from the state of New York and the current Congressman for New York's First Congressional District (map (http://latfor.state.ny.us/maps/propcong/fc001.pdf)), which includes most of Central and Eastern Suffolk County including the post Hamptons
Bishop was born in Southampton, New York and graduated from Holy Cross College. He served as the long-time Provost of Southampton College. In his first political race in 2002, Bishop ran as a Democrat against Republican Congressman Felix Grucci. During the campaign, Grucci ran radio ads accusing Bishop of falsifying rape statistics at the college, but his claims were based on articles from a college newspaper that contained numerous inaccuracies. Grucci refused to repudiate the ads, and Bishop won the election by under 3,000 votes.
Bishop's victory was one of only three turnovers of a Republican House seat to the Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections; the other two winners were Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Rodney Alexander of Louisiana (who has since changed his party affiliation to Republican).
| New York Congressional Delegation serving in the 109th United States Congress. |
| Senators | Charles E. Schumer (D), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) |
| Representatives | Timothy H. Bishop, Steve Israel, Peter T. King, Carolyn McCarthy, Gary L. Ackerman, Gregory W. Meeks, Joseph Crowley, Jerrold Nadler, Anthony D. Weiner, Edolphus Towns, Major R. Owens, Nydia Velázquez, Vito Fossella, Carolyn B. Maloney, Charles B. Rangel, José Serrano, Eliot L. Engel, Nita M. Lowey, Sue W. Kelly, John E. Sweeney, Michael R. McNulty, Maurice D. Hinchey, John M. McHugh, Sherwood Boehlert, James T. Walsh, Thomas M. Reynolds, Brian Higgins, Louise Slaughter, Randy Kuhl |
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