Rudolph Giuliani
Rudolph Giuliani was born on May 28, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. Later on, his father Harold Giuliani had moved Rudolph and his family to the Long Island Community of Garden City.
His respect for the law was nurtured and reinforced by several members of his extended family. (Rudolph had four policemen uncles and another uncle was a captain in the New York Fire Department.)
During his college years, Rudolph Giuliani majored in political science and philosophy at the Manhattan College. He supplemented his knowledge by continuing to pursue a degree in law at the New York University School of Law, where he was able to graduate magna cum laude in 1968. After his studies, Rudolph Giuliani served as a clerk for Federal District Court Judge Lloyd F. McMahon, the person who had urged him to join the US Attorney’s office.
A few years later, Rudolph Giuliani moved on to become an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Soon after, he was named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and was then promoted to hold the position of Executive US Attorney.
During the Reagan administration, Rudolph Giuliani served as the Associate Attorney General due to the four years he had devoted to law practice.
In 1993, Rudolph Giuliani was elected as the 107th mayor of New York City. His administration had brought the country’s biggest workforce program and for the next eight years, his administration had helped more than 690,000 people recover from living out of welfare rolls into self-sufficiency.
During his term as Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani had shown efforts to eliminate the influence of organized crime from New York’s commercial sector. He was also able to cut down taxes and at the same time managed to turn a $2.3 billion budget deficit into a multibillion dollar surplus.