Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday in the wake of a report by New York’s attorney general that found he sexually harassed 11 women, a dramatic fall for a once-powerful figure whose U.S. political career spanned four decades.
Here is a chronology of key events in Cuomo’s life:
Dec. 6, 1957 – Andrew Cuomo born in New York City to parents Mario Cuomo and Matilda Raffa Cuomo.
November 1982 – With Andrew, his son, as a top campaign adviser, Democrat Mario Cuomo is elected to the first of three terms as New York governor.
January 1997 – Andrew Cuomo becomes U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton.
September 2002 – Trailing in the polls to Carl McCall, Cuomo withdraws from Democratic primary for New York state governor a week before the election.
November 2006 – Elected attorney general of New York.
November 2010 – Elected to first term as governor.
November 2014 – Elected to second term as governor.
November 2018 – Elected to third term as governor.
Mid-2020 – Emerges as national leader on issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, holding detailed news conferences at a time when President Donald Trump was playing down the pandemic.
Dec. 13, 2020 – Former aide Lindsey Boylan accuses Cuomo with a thread on Twitter. “Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched,” she tweets. The tweets receive some media coverage but do not become a major national story. The investigation later concludes that senior Cuomo aides unlawfully retaliated against Boylan by leaking confidential files about her to the press and drafting an op-ed attacking her that was shared among senior staff.
