REP. ANTONIO DELGADO (D-NY)
Antonio Ramon Delgado (born January 28, 1977) is an attorney and politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, he serves as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 19th congressional district. The district includes most of the southern and eastern suburbs of the Capital District as well as the majority of the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions. It contains much of the territory that was once represented by current U. S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. He is the first person of either African-American or Hispanic descent to be elected to Congress from Upstate New York.
He is of African-American and Puerto Rican ancestry. He attended Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons High School and played for the school’s basketball team. He then enrolled at Colgate University and played for the Colgate Raiders men’s basketball team alongside future Golden State Warriors player Adonal Foyle. Delgado graduated from Colgate in 1999 and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to study at The Queen’s College, Oxford, from which he received a Master of Arts degree in 2001. In 2005, Delgado graduated from Harvard Law School.
After law school, Delgado moved to Los Angeles in 2005 and worked in the music industry. In 2007, Delgado released a socially conscious rap album under the stage name “AD the Voice.” He then worked as a litigator in the New York office of the law firm Akin Gump.
