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Major Parties: July 2012
Independents: August 2012
Other Parties: September 2012
Primary: September 2012
Election Race for New York U.S. Senator:
New York Senator Election Race
Republican Governor Candidates
Woody Johnson (R)
George Maragos (R)
Jay Townsend (R)
Democrat Governor Candidates
Kirsten Gillibrand (D)
Scott Noren (D)
Other Governor Candidates
Michael Craft (Independent)New York Candidates for US Congress from NY
District 1:
Tim Bishop (D)
Randy Altschuler (R)
Distric 2:
Steve Israel (D)
District 3:
Pete King (R)
District 4:
Carolyn McCarthy (D)
Frank Scaturro (R)
District 5:
Gary Ackerman (D)
District 6:
Gregory Meeks (D)
District 7:
Joe Crowley (D)
District 8:
Jerrold Nadler (D)
District 9 - SPECIAL ELECTION - SEPTEMBER 13, 2011:
David Weprin (D/IP/WF)
Bob Turner (R/C)
Chris Hoeppner (SWP)
District 10:
Ed Towns (D)
Charles Barron (D)
Hakeem Jeffries (D)
Kevin Powell (D)
District 11:
Yvette Clarke (D)
District 12:
Nydia Velazquez (D)
Dan O'Connor (D)
District 13:
Michael Grimm (R)
Michael Cusick (D)
Mike McMahon (D)
District 14:
Carolyn Maloney (D)
District 15:
Charlie Rangel (D)
Vincent Morgan (D)
District 16:
Jose Serrano (D)
District 17:
Eliot Engel (D)
District 18:
Nita Lowey (D)
Mark Rosen (R)
District 19:
Nan Hayworth (R)
Matt Alexander (D)
Rich Becker (D)
Sean Eldridge (D)
Mike Kaplowitz (D)
Margo Miller (D)
District 20:
Chris Gibson (R)
Scott Murphy (D)
District 21:
Paul Tonko (D)
District 22:
Maurice Hinchey (D)
District 23:
Bill Owens (D)
Matt Doheny (R)
Kelly Eustis (R)
District 24:
Richard Hanna (R)
Mike Arcuri (D)
District 25:
Ann Marie Buerkle (R)
Dan Maffei (D)
Brianne Murphy (D)
District 26:
Kathy Hochul (D)
Jane Corwin (R)
Jack Davis (Republican/Tea Party)
District 27:
Brian Higgins (D)
District 28:
Louise Slaughter (D)
District 29:
Tom Reed (R)
Matt Zeller (D)
Jay Townsend
Jay Townsend is a husband, father, and small businessman who is running for United States Senate against Chuck Schumer. He has lived in New York for nearly 30 years; residing upstate as a Cornell University graduate student, in New York City as a young entrepreneur, settling in the Hudson Valley when he formed The Townsend Group
Townsend earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University in 1976 and 1982. He resides with his wife, Rebecca, and their sons in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. He is a Cornwell community volunteer and civic leader. Mr. Townsend has lectured on politics and public policy at the United States Military Academy, the Marketing Research Association, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, as well as other colleges and universities.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand a New York Democrat who is running a grassroots campaign to improve life for the middle class and working families across New York.
She was born and raised in upstate New York and watched her grandmother, Polly Noonan, organize Albany women to make a difference. Her grandmother taught Kirsten these values: hard work, idealism, honesty and bold action.
She is married with 2 sons. Kirsten was first sworn in to the U.S. Senate in 2009 and was elected in 2010 with more than 63 percent of the vote to fill Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's seat. In 2012 she will run again but this time for a six year term to serve as New York’s US Senator.
History of New York - Information that every New York Senatorial Candidate Should Know
The area that would eventually encompass modern day New York City was inhabited by various Algonquian speaking tribes of Native Americans. Among these tribes were various bands of the Unami, a subgroup of the Lenape. According to Lenape tradition they had lived in the area for thousands of years and were known as the "grandfather tribe". Among the bands of the Lenape that lived in the present city region were the Raritan in Staten Island and New Jersey, the Canarsie in Brooklyn, and the Hackensack in New Jersey across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. Other tribes present in the region were various groups of Alonquians on Long Island collectively referred to as the Metoac. The Manhattas, a band of the Wappinger tribe, had various seasonal settlements on Manhattan island.
These tribes all made use of the abundant waterways in the New York City region for fishing, hunting trips, trade amongst themselves and occasionally war. A reminder of their presence in the New York City region is evidenced by various place names such as Raritan Bay and Canarsie, Brooklyn. Many former indian paths are today main thouroughfares such as Broadway in Manhattan. They developed sophisticated techniques of hunting and managing their resources. By the time of the arrival of Europeans, the Lenape were cultivating fields of vegetation through the slash and burn technique, which extended the productive life of planted fields. They also harvested vast quantities of fish and shellfish from the bay.It has been estimated that at the time of European settlement there were approximately 15,000 Lenape total in approximately 80 settlement sites around the region.European settlement began with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan in 1613 later called New Amsterdam in the southern tip of Manhattan in 1625.Soon thereafter, most likely in 1626, construction of Fort Amsterdam began.
Willem Kieft became director general in 1638, but five years later was embroiled in Kieft's War against the Native Americans. The Pavonia Massacre, across the Hudson River in present day Jersey City resulted in the death of eighty natives in February 1643. Following the massacre, eleven Algonquian tribes joined forces and nearly defeated the Dutch. Holland sent additional forces to the aid of Kieft, leading to the overwhelming defeat of the Native Americans, and a peace treaty on August 29, 1645.
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