User:Diablanco/Antonio Delgado (politician)

Antonio Delgado is the representative-elect of New York's 19th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. On June 26, 2018, he won the Democratic primary with 22% of the vote and went on to the November, 2018 election where he won a seat against incumbent congressman John Faso on November 6th. Prior to running for office, Delgado was an attorney.

Early Life and Education
Delgado grew up in Schenectady, New York. He attended Colgate University, earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where he studied philosophy and political theory. He then attended and received a law degree from Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard, he founded a record label in Los Angeles called Statik Entertainment and worked as a hip-hop artist under the name AD the Voice. He began working as a solo law practitioner in Los Angeles, before moving back to New York as an associate (attorney) in the New York offices of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, a position he kept after moving to Rhinebeck in 2017.

Personal Life
Delgado is married to Lacey Schwartz, a documentary film-maker and fellow Harvard Law Alumnus.

In the media
In addition to various local media covering the local 19th district election, Delgado was a key figure in a June 2018 episode (#649) of This American Life, where a contrast is drawn between Delgado, and a more progressive democratic candidate, Jeff Beals.

Reference
Category:Living people Category:African-American politicians Category:Rhodes Scholars