Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is a businessman and mayor of New York City.

Bloomberg was born and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He made his fortune selling financial-information terminals to Wall Street firms. Bloomberg L.P. also began a radio network (the flagship station is 1130 WBBR-AM in New York City). Prior to founding the company, he was general partner at Salomon Brothers, where he headed equity trading, sales and, later, systems development.

Mr. Bloomberg is among the world's richest people, with a net worth approaching $5 billion.

Michael Bloomberg is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 with a BS in electrical engineering and Harvard University with a Master of Business Administration degree. Bloomberg has since donated $100 million to Johns Hopkins University.

He has written an autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg (1997, ISBN 0471155454).

Mayor of New York

In 2001 he was elected mayor, succeeding Rudy Giuliani, who was required to leave office by term limits. Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, ran for mayor as a Republican (or Republican In Name Only), reportedly to avoid the crowded field in the Democratic primary. He defeated Herman Badillo in the Republican primary and Democratic candidate Mark J. Green in the general election.

Among his political positions and policies:

He has opposed the movement to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry, though he has remained firmly ambiguous on whether he supports gay marriage:

I’m sort of on the record as not being in favor of marriage, period, for myself. [1] (http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn227/mikeisafifthcolumn.html)

He has supported a number of measures to restrict public smoking during his time as mayor.
He supports abortion rights.
Since 2003, he has become increasingly assertive in demanding federal anti-terrorism funds be distributed to municipalities based on risk and population rather than any other measure.

Preceded by :
Rudolph Giuliani

Mayors of New York

Succeeded by:
incubent

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