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| Bill Samuels | |
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| Born |
February 10, 1943 Richmond, Virginia, USA |
| Alma mater | MIT, Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Businessman and politician |
| Known for | Political activism- People's Convention, Blue Tiger Democrats, Effective NY, New Roosevelt, 970 The Answer radio talk show |
| Home town | Hopewell, NY |
| Movement | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Marie Samuels |
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| Website | http://effectiveny.org, http://www.nypeoplesconvention.org |
William Christie "Bill" Samuels is a New York City-based progressive Democrat, businessman, founder and chairman of the board of the good government group EffectiveNY and the EffectiveNY Howard Samuels Policy Center. He is also a host of Effective Radio on AM970, a monthly, two-hour program aimed at enacting major statewide policy changes from a constitutional right to clean air and water to term limits for Albany, to a new approach to drug addiction and marijuana legalization, while educating New Yorkers on a "People's Convention."
Samuels has been active in progressive politics since organizing against the Vietnam War in the 1970s. In his business career, he built ACTV, Inc. which developed patents for interactive television. The company was sold to an affiliate of Liberty Media. He also recently sold his Silicon Valley technology company, Resonant Software, to IPipeline.
Samuels is the son of Howard J. Samuels (December 3, 1919 – October 26, 1984), an American statesman, industrialist, civil rights activist and philanthropist who served as U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the Small Business Administration under President Johnson, and special advisor to the campaign for president by John F. Kennedy and the administration of President Carter.
Samuels was raised in upstate New York in Canandaigua, the son of Howard and Barbara Samuels. His father Howard J. Samuels served as U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce under President Lyndon B. Johnson and was Director of the Small Business Administration and founded Kordite, now known as Pactive. In 1974 his father ran for Governor with Mario Cuomo as his Lieutenant Governor ultimately losing to Hugh Carey.
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