The American politician Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961. He served as mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021. From 2010 to 2013, he served as New York City’s Public Advocate. He is a Democrat.
De Blasio, a native of Manhattan, spent the majority of his upbringing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Columbia University and New York University, and for a brief period of time, he managed the campaigns of Charles Rangel and Hillary Clinton.
De Blasio represented Brooklyn’s 39th district on the New York City Council from 2002 to 2009. After serving as a public advocate for one term, he was elected mayor in 2013 and again in 2017.
As mayor, De Blasio supervised the discontinuation of the post-9/11 monitoring program of Muslim communities, the introduction of new de-escalation training for police officers, and the decline in prosecutions for cannabis possession. He also implemented a free pre-kindergarten program for all kids during his first term.
What happened to Bill de Blasio?
De Blasio was ineligible to run for a third term as mayor of New York City in 2021 due to term constraints. On January 1st, 2022, Eric Adams took his place.
Although de Blasio declared his candidacy for the newly redistricted 10th congressional district in the 2022 U.S. House election, he later withdrew from the campaign on July 19, 2022, declaring that he was done with electoral politics.