Yvette Clarke
| Yvette Clarke | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 9th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Turner |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 11th district |
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In office January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Major Owens |
| Succeeded by | Michael Grimm |
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Yvette Diane Clarke November 21, 1964 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Oberlin College Medgar Evers College |
Yvette Diane Clarke (born November 21, 1964) is a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from New York. Clarke's district was numbered the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, and redistricted as the 9th district in 2013 covering much of central Brooklyn.
Before entering Congress in 2007, Clarke was a member of the New York City Council, representing the 40th council district in Brooklyn, succeeding her mother, Una S. T. Clarke.
The child of Jamaican immigrant parents, Clarke has lived all her life in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Upon graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School, she earned a scholarship to Oberlin College in Ohio, which she attended from 1982 to 1986, and before graduating Oberlin she enrolled at Medgar Evers College, but did not graduate. She has not graduated from college.
Clarke's 2004-05 campaign listed that she graduated from Oberlin College, the Daily News researched and found out that she did not graduate, but rather went on to enroll at Medgar Evers College.
Clarke worked as director of business development for the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation and was the second director of the Bronx portion of the New York City Empowerment Zone. At some point, she interned for Congressman Major Owens.
Brooklyn's 40th council district elected Clarke to the New York City Council in 2001. She succeeded her mother, former City Council member Una S. T. Clarke, who held the seat for more than a decade, making theirs the first mother-to-daughter succession in city council.
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