Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo was the 56th governor of New York. He is a Democrat. Cuomo was elected in November of 2010 after four years as the state attorney general and then re-elected in 2014 and 2018. He resigned from office in 2021 after allegations that he hid the number of deaths in nursing homes during the Coronavirus pandemic and sexually harassed at least 11 women. Cuomo ran for mayor in New York City in 2025, but was beaten in the primary by democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. Cuomo was born on December 6, 1957 in Queens, New York. He attended Fordham University in the Bronx and Albany Law School. His father, the late Mario Cuomo, was also a New York Governor, and Andrew got his start working on his father's 1982 campaign.