Rudy Guliani

Rudolph William Giuliani came into national prominence in the days following 9/11, as the Mayor of New York City, where aircraft under terrorist control hit the Twin Towers. Mayor Giuliani was instrumental in getting the city and the people back into some form of normalcy.

Giuliani was born May 29, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of seven, his father, Harold, moved him out of Brooklyn and a neighborhood wracked with crime into Garden City, New York. His father who had had some difficulties with the law at an early age instilled into his only son a great respect for the law. This was supported by Giuliani’s extended family, where he had four uncles who were policemen and another who was a Captain in the Fire Department.

Giuliani studied political science and philosophy at Manhattan College. From there he attended law school at the New York University of Law and graduated magna cum laude. Ultimately after clerking for a federal district judge, Giuliani joined the U. S. Attorney’s office becoming an assistant U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York.

Under President Ronald Reagan, Giuliani was named Associate Attorney General, where he oversaw the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Marshall’s Office. In 2008, he had an unsuccessful bid for there Republican nomination for President of the United States.

Rudy Giuliani has many accomplishments to his credit during his eight years as mayor of the countries largest city. He, first and foremost, took a debt-ridden city and injected some tax cuts and spending cuts and kept the city from a financial meltdown.