Tom Suozzi
Tom Suozzi, a Democrat who has represented New York's 3rd congressional district since 2024 and previously from 2017 to 2023, seeks re-election in 2026 against Republican Mike LiPetri, a former state assemblyman.
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- Born
- August 31, 1962
- Birthplace
- Glen Cove, New York
- Education
- Chaminade High School (1980)
Boston College (Bachelor of Science in accounting, 1984)
Fordham University School of Law (Juris Doctor, 1989)
Biography & Campaign Analysis
Background
Tom Suozzi was born on August 31, 1962, in Glen Cove, New York, the youngest of five siblings. His father, Joseph A. Suozzi, was an attorney who served as Glen Cove's mayor from 1956 to 1960, and his mother, Marguerite, worked as an operating room nurse at Glen Cove Hospital.
Suozzi graduated from Chaminade High School in 1980 and earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Boston College in 1984.
After working as an accountant at Arthur Andersen, he received a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 1989, clerked for Thomas Collier Platt Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and worked as a commercial litigator at Shearman & Sterling until 1993.
He and his wife Helene have three children and live in Glen Cove.
Career
Suozzi was elected mayor of Glen Cove in 1993 and served four terms. In 2001 he became Nassau County executive, the first Democrat elected to the post in 30 years, and held the office until losing to Ed Mangano in 2009; Mangano defeated him again in 2013, 59% to 41%. He sought the Democratic nomination for governor in 2006, losing to Eliot Spitzer, and again in 2022, placing third in the primary won by Governor Kathy Hochul.
Suozzi won New York's 3rd congressional district in 2016, defeating Republican Jack Martins 53% to 47%, and was re-elected in 2018 and 2020 before leaving the seat to run for governor.
After the House expelled George Santos, Suozzi won the special election on February 13, 2024, defeating Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip 54% to 46%, and he was re-elected that November against Mike LiPetri.
In January 2025 he became Democratic co-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus, and in the 119th Congress he sits on the Committee on Ways and Means.
2026 race
The 3rd district covers the North Shore of Nassau County and the northeast Queens neighborhoods of Whitestone, Beechhurst, Little Neck and Douglaston. Suozzi, who was re-elected with 51.8% of the vote in 2024, won the Democratic primary with 79.3% against public defender Danielle Welch.
In a rematch of the 2024 contest, he faces Republican Mike LiPetri, a former state assemblyman who won his primary with 81.9% and also holds the Conservative Party line, in the general election on November 3, 2026.