Alessandra Biaggi (D)
Chair of Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance
34th Senate District
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District Office
1250 Waters Place, Suite 1202
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 822-2049
Albany Office
Legislative Office Building, Room 905
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-3595
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Alessandra Biaggi was born in Mount Vernon, New York.
She is the granddaughter of late congressman Mario Biaggi.
Mario Biaggi was a U.S. Representative from New York (served from 1969 to 1988) and former New York City police officer.
He was elected as a Democrat from The Bronx in New York City. In 1987 and 1988, he was convicted in two separate corruption trials, and he resigned from Congress in 1988.
Alessandra Biaggi graduated from Pelham Memorial High School, New York University, and Fordham Law School, where she was a member of the Fordham Law Review.
In 2014, she attended the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.
Alessandra Biaggi lives in Pelham, NY, where she was born and raised.
She’s been active in politics for over a decade
Alessandra Biaggi interned in the offices of Congressman Joseph Crowley, the Kings County District Attorney, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and worked as Assistant General Counsel for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Office of Storm Recovery.
She most recently served as counsel in Governor Cuomo’s Counsels Office, and as a member of the Governor’s executive clemency team.
During the 2016 presidential election, Biaggi served as Deputy National Operations Director for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
On January 24, 2018, Biaggi announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for New York State Senate in District 34 against incumbent Jeffrey D. Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference.
Biaggi defeated Klein in what amounted to a major upset.
Senate District 34 covers the Riverdale, Pelham Bay, Throggs Neck, City Island, Morris Park, Middletown, Hart Island, Hunts Point, Eastchester, parts of Castle Hill and parts of Westchester Square.