Adolfo Carrión, Jr.
| Adolfo Carrión Jr. | |
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| 1st Director of the Office of Urban Affairs | |
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In office February 19, 2009 – May 3, 2010 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Racquel Russell |
| 12th Borough President of the Bronx | |
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In office January 1, 2002 – February 19, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Fernando Ferrer |
| Succeeded by | Ruben Diaz |
| Member of the New York City Council from the 14th district |
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In office January 1, 1998 – December 31, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Israel Ruiz |
| Succeeded by | Maria Baez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 6, 1961 Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater |
Kings College Hunter College |
Adolfo Carrión Jr. (born March 6, 1961) is a businessman and former elected official from City Island, located in New York City, New York. He has two sisters Lizette Carrión, and Elizabeth Carrión-Stevens. His nephew is Benjamin Stevens, the lead singer of the Boston-based band Juice. He served for seven years as the Borough President of the Bronx, for a year and five months as the first director of the Office of Urban Affairs in the Obama Administration, and then for nearly two years as Regional Administrator for HUD's New York and New Jersey Regional Office. He left HUD in February 2012.
In late 2012, Carrión left the Democratic Party to begin exploring a run for Mayor of New York City, and in February 2013 he was granted the Independence Party nomination.
Adolfo Carrión was born in Manhattan, in 1961, of Puerto Rican descent. His family moved to the Baychester section of the Northeast Bronx when he was in fourth grade. He attended public school at John Philip Sousa Middle School and Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx. Later, he graduated from The King's College, a Christian liberal arts college in Westchester County at the time, where he majored in world religions. He followed in the footsteps of his father, a Protestant minister, and became an associate pastor at a Bronx church.
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