Richard N. Gottfried
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| Member of the New York State Assembly for the 75th District 64th District (1983–2002) 67th District (1973–82) 65th District (1971–72) |
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Assumed office January 1, 1971 |
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| Preceded by | Jerome Kretchmer |
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May 16, 1947 New York, NY |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Louise |
| Residence | New York City |
| Alma mater | Columbia Law School |
| Occupation | politician |
| Website | Assembly Website |
Richard N. Gottfried (born May 16, 1947) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician from Manhattan, New York City. He has represented the 75th District in the New York State Assembly for more than 40 years, making him the longest-serving member of that body.
Gottfried was born in New York City, NY on May 16, 1947. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School (where he was a colleague of U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler, and future political consultant Dick Morris),Cornell University (BA, 1968), and Columbia Law School (JD, 1973).
Richard Gottfried represents District 75 in the New York State Assembly, which includes Murray Hill, Chelsea, Clinton, portions of Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side. Gottfried is a progressive Democrat consistently endorsed by the Democratic and Working Families parties.
Elected to the Assembly in 1970—while a matriculating student at Columbia Law School – Gottfried currently serves as Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Health and is also a member of the Committees on Higher Education and Rules. He is also a member of the Assembly Steering Committee and the head of the Manhattan Assembly Delegation.
Some of his pieces of legislation-bills enacted into law that he has primary or secondary responsibility for include the creation of the Prenatal Care Assistance Program as well as the Child Health Plus and Family Health Plus programs. He is also the author of the Physician Profiling Law, which allows patients to access information about their primary care physician; the Family Health Care Decisions Act, which prioritizes who would make health care decisions for a person who does not have a health care proxy and is incapacitated; and the Health Care Proxy Law-which allows individuals to designate a secondary party to make critical health care decisions for them if they become incapacitated-as well as the HIV Testing and Confidentiality Law.
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