Rubén Díaz, Jr.
| Rubén Díaz Jr. | |
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Díaz in 2012
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| 13th Borough President of The Bronx | |
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Assumed office April 22, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Adolfo Carrión Jr. |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from the 85th district |
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In office January 1, 1997 – April 22, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Pedro G. Espada |
| Succeeded by | Marcos Crespo |
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April 26, 1973 Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Hilda Gerena Díaz |
| Alma mater | Lehman College |
| Profession | Elected Official |
| Religion | Christianity |
Rubén Díaz Jr. (born April 26, 1973) is the current President of the Borough of the Bronx in New York City, USA. He was elected in April 2009 and previously served in the New York State Assembly.
Díaz's parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico, where he was born and received his primary and secondary education in the Bronx. He graduated first from LaGuardia Community College, then Lehman College with a Bachelor's degree in political theory.
Díaz's father Rubén Díaz Sr. is a New York State Senator and formerly served in the New York City Council. Contrary to the pattern in New York in which children follow parents into elected office, it was Ruben Díaz Jr. who was first elected to office five years before his father’s election to the New York City Council.
Díaz lives in the southeast Bronx with his wife Hilda and their two sons.
Díaz was elected to the Assembly at the age of twenty-three, which made him the youngest person elected to the legislative body since Theodore Roosevelt.
While in the Assembly, Díaz sponsored, co-sponsored and passed legislation addressing health care, public records access,minimum wage and overtime pay, environmental protection, equitable labor standards,insurance fraud, tenants rights, transparency and disclosure in all environmental impact statements, pedestrian safety,school bus safety, protection from tax preparers, Senior Citizens rights, wider access to the Senior Citizens Rent Increase Exemption (SCRIE) Program, and the regulation and accountability of gas and electric companies.
A member of the Assembly Education Committee, Díaz has been outspoken on educational issues. He has addressed the International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) and praised the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's (CFE) efforts to protect the constitutional right to a basic education. In 2003, when Governor George Pataki sought to cut the State's higher education budget, Díaz was a vocal critic of this plan and, together with other state legislators, was able to restore funding for some of the Governor's proposed cuts.
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