Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer is the Attorney General for the State of New York.
He first ran for this office in 1994, when he finished fourth in the Democratic primary. He ran again in 1998, winning with an extremely narrow margin over incumbent Dennis Vacco. He was criticized for circumventing campaign finance laws, by borrowing $9 million from his father for these two elections.
He was born and raised in Riverdale, the Bronx, New York. He attended Princeton University and was elected chairman of the undergraduate student government, graduating in 1981. He then went to Harvard Law School, where he joined the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he clerked for a judge and joined the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He stayed there for less than two years, when he left to join the Manhattan district attorney's office. He spent six years pursuing organized crime mobsters. After leaving public service, in 1992 he joined the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, for a short time, before running for office of Attorney General in 1994.
He is married to Silda Wall and has three daughters.
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