Michael P. Forbes
| Michael Forbes | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 1st district |
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In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | George J. Hochbrueckner |
| Succeeded by | Felix Grucci |
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July 16, 1952 Riverhead, New York |
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Republican (until July 17, 1999) Democratic (since July 17, 1999) |
Michael Patrick Forbes (born July 16, 1952, Riverhead, New York) is a politician from the state of New York.
Michael Patrick Forbes of Round Rock, Texas and Quogue, Long Island, was born on 16 July 1952 at Riverhead, Long Island, New York to Kenneth and Jane (née Morrissey) Forbes. He is the grandson of Carrie Bowman, a Broadway actress, and T. Harold Forbes, an actor and song and dance man who became a well-known newspaper publisher in New Rochelle and Long Island, NY. Forbes graduated from the SUNY Albany, Saint Paul University and the University of Ottawa. He received an honorary Doctor of Law from Long Island University and, more recently, spent five years in formation and theological studies for the Permanent Diaconate in the Catholic Diocese of Austin. Forbes got his start in politics as an assistant to New York State Assembly Speaker Perry B. Duryea, Jr.. He was a senior aide and close advisor to Republicans U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato and U.S. Rep. Connie Mack. In 1979, Forbes joined the George H.W. Bush campaign as a volunteer in New York and again, in 1987, campaigned statewide in Maine for Bush to succeed Ronald Reagan. President Bush appointed Forbes to a senior post at the United States Small Business Administration in 1989. He served four years, leaving in 1993 when the Clinton administration came into office.
Forbes remains heavily involved as a board member and committee member of the not-for-profit Camp Agawam, an alumni-owned summer camp in Raymond, Maine. He continues a passionate love for the camp he first attended in 1965, volunteering and advocating as it approaches 100 years of forming young men into future leaders.
In 1994, Forbes ran on three ballot lines for the House of Representatives: Republican, Conservative, and Right to Life. Campaigning as a fiscal conservative, he defeated popular incumbent George Hochbrueckner by six percentage points. Forbes got a seat on the powerful Appropriations committee, unusual for a freshman Representative, due to his ties with new House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In December 1996, after Gingrich was cited for gross campaign irregularities, Forbes became the first Republican to announce he was not going to vote for Gingrich for speaker. Forbes voted for moderate Rep. Jim Leach instead. Despite his record of support for a number of President Clinton's programs, Forbes voted for the Clinton impeachment.
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