Who is Kathy Hochul’s mom?
KATHY Hochul's mother was an advocate that had an effect on Hochul's own political career.
Hochul was sworn in as governor of New York in August 2021 following Andrew Cuomo's resignation.
Who is Kathy Hochul's mom?
Hochul's parents are John P. 'Jack' Courtney and Patricia Ann 'Pat' (Rochford) Courtney.
Hochul's family is Irish Catholic, with roots in Kerry, Ireland.
Her website states she was "raised in a blue-collar Irish Catholic family in Buffalo that instilled a deep passion for public service and activism."
According to reports, Hochul's family struggled financially to support their children.
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For a time in her early years, the family lived in a trailer near a steel plant.
Both her parents and paternal grandparents were involved in "countless social causes" and she credits her Irish heritage for her own tendency to support the "underdog," writes the .
Hochul once said her mother fiercely advocated for domestic abuse victims, a cause that carried into her own belief system.
“My mother saw her mother ... her father walked out when they were very young and it was a lot of, I’d say more verbal abuse than physical, but it was the same,” Hochul was reported saying by
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“And my mother, back in the 70s, became an advocate for victims of domestic violence way before anybody in the Legislature was talking about it.”
Although Hochul's mother was not a direct victim of domestic violence “ she went and got a degree in social work and worked with victims all her life."
Courtney “saw that there was a real need for these people to have to have a place to go to, to get out to, to restart their lives,” Hochul said.
Who are Kathy Hochul's children?
Hochul is married to William J. Hochul Jr., a former US attorney for the Western District of New York.
They reportedly live in the Buffalo, New York area.
The couple shares two children, Will and Caitlin, according to her .
Not much is publicly known about Kathy's children, their ages, or their careers.
How long has Kathy Hochul been in politics?
Hochul was elected as the Democratic and Conservative Party candidate to the Hamburg Town Board in November 1994.
She served on that board until 2007.
The Lieutenant Governor previously served as Erie County deputy clerk and later county clerk, having been appointed Erie County Clerk David Swarts in May 2003.
In 2011, she won a special election to become the first Democrat to represent New York’s 26th Congressional District in four decades, NY Magazine noted.
She later became Lieutenant Governor and was sworn in on January 1, 2015.
Hochul is considered a moderate Democrat.
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She was previously endorsed by the National Rifle Association but is also pro-choice.
She chairs former Governor Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Councils and the state Heroin and Opioid Abuse Task Force, noted.