Forner Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is a lifelong resident of New York. Born in Brooklyn,
he graduated from Manhattan College in the Bronx, and received his law degree from New York University Law School in Manhattan.

In 1970, Giuliani joined the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New
York, where he was named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and rose to serve as Executive U.S. Attorney. In 1975, Giuliani was recruited to Washington, D.C. where he was named Associate Deputy Attorney General. After returning to the private sector to practice law in New York, he was named Associate Attorney General in 1981. In this capacity Giuliani supervised all U.S. Attorney offices, the Bureau of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S. Marshals and other federal law enforcement agencies. Few U.S. attorneys in history can match his record of 4,152 convictions with only 25 reversals.

In 1983 Giuliani was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York where he spearheaded efforts to jail drug dealers, fight organized crime, prosecute white-collar criminals and corruption in government, fought discrimination, and championed the rights of the disabled.

Returning again to private practice in 1989, Giuliani ran as an independent candidate
in the race for Mayor of New York City. He lost by a close margin, and ran again four years later. In 1993, Giuliani was elected Major of New York City and was subsequently re-elected to a second term.

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