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NEW YORK STATE SENATE — Westchester County – District 40 — Pete Harckham (D) Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester

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Peter “Pete” Harckham is the state senator for the 40th district of the New York State Senate. A Democrat, Harckham was first elected in 2018, defeating incumbent Terrence Murphy. The district includes parts of Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties in the Hudson Valley

Pete Harckham (D)

Chairman of Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse

40th Senate District
District 40 Map

Contact Information

Website
Facebook
Twitter @SenatorHarckham

District Office 

40 Gleneida Avenue3rd FloorCarmel, NY 10512(845) 225-3025

Temporary Westchester Office

(914) 241-4600

Albany Office

188 State Street
Room 812
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-3111
Fax: 518-426-6977

Committee Membership

Peter Harckham grew up in the Hudson Valley, residing in Rockland County for most of his childhood.

He attended Clarkstown High School North, before attending Dickinson College, where he graduated in English.

Harckham began his career in the advertising sector.

Prior to elected office, Harckham served as President for a not for profit housing corporation that builds affordable housing in northern Westchester County.

Prior to that, Harckham served as Vice Chair of the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, a San Francisco based private foundation that supports the sustainable management of natural resources.

In 2007, Harckham was first elected to the Westchester County Board of Legislators, winning again in 2009, 2011, and 2013.

He served for four terms as a county legislator, including two terms as Democratic Majority Leader.

He ran unsuccessfully for the New York State Assembly in a 2010 special election.

In 2015 he left the legislature to work in the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as assistant director of the Office of Community Renewal. In that position he helped administer grants in the lower Hudson Valley.

In 2018, Harckham ran against incumbent Republican state Senator Terrence Murphy, who had represented the seat since 2015.

In an overwhelmingly Democratic year, Harckham defeated Murphy, 51% to 49%.

Harckham’s campaign site

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NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY — Westchester County – District 92 — Thomas J. Abinanti (D)

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Thomas J. Abinanti is an American politician, lawyer, and member of the New York State Assembly from Greenburgh, New York. A member of the Democratic Party, Abinanti was elected to the State Assembly in 2010 to replace Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, and represents central Westchester County

Thomas J. Abinanti (D)

District 92
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Contact Information

Website
Facebook
Twitter @TomAbinanti

District Office

303 South Broadway, Suite 229
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Phone (914) 631-1605
Fax (914) 631-1609

Albany Office

LOB 744
Albany, NY 12248
Phone (518) 455-5753

Committee Membership
  • Chair, Commission on Government Administration
  • Committee on Health
  • Committee on Codes
  • Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
  • Committee on Election Law
  • Committee on Environmental Conservation

Born in Brooklyn, Abinanti graduated from Xaverian High School in 1964. He received a B.A. degree in political science from Fordham College in 1968 and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1972.

Abinanti moved to Westchester in 1975 and has lived in Greenburgh ever since, where he is a practicing attorney and served two terms as Greenburgh Town Councilman (1980–1984 and 1990–1991).

Abinanti has taught continuing legal education courses for Pace Law School and courses in state and local government as an adjunct professor at Mercy College.

Abinanti was legislative counsel to a Congresswoman and staff counsel the Speaker of the New York State Assembly and various Assembly committees. He served as a prosecuting attorney for the villages of Ardsley and Dobbs Ferry.

For almost twenty years (1992–2010), he represented the 12th District on the Westchester County Board of Legislators, which included the villages of Irvington, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings, Ardsley, and much of unincorporated Greenburgh, including East Irvington, Central Greenburgh, Hartsdale and Edgemont, until his election to the State Assembly in November 2010.

On the County Board, he previously served as Majority Leader for three terms when the Democrats first assumed the majority on the Board for the first time in the history of the Westchester Legislature.

The 92nd District of the State Assembly which Abinanti represents includes the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, the villages of Ardsley, Elmsford, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Tarrytown, and Sleepy Hollow, as well as parts of the Village of Briarcliff and the City of Yonkers.

In 1996, Abinanti was defeated in a run for the 35th District of the New York State Senate against the incumbent Republican State Senator Nicholas A. Spano.