Meeks, Gregory, 1953-

LC control no.	no2013003140
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Meeks, Gregory, 1953- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Meeks, Gregory W., 1953-
Located	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	19530925
Place of birth	East Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activity	Law
Affiliation	New York (State). Legislature. Assembly United States. Congress. House Howard University. School of Law
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Legislators
Found in	In the matter of allegations relating to Representative Gregory Meeks, 2012. Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present [ER] ( Meeks, Gregory W., a Representative from New York; born in East Harlem, New York County, N.Y., September 25, 1953) Gregory W. Meeks WWW site, December 28, 2012 home page (Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, New York's 6th District) African American National Biography, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Meeks, Gregory; US Representative; born 25 September 1953 in Harlem, New York, New York, United States; BA in History at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York (1975); law degree at Howard University Law School (1978); joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office as an assistant district attorney; assistant to the Special Narcotics Office for New York City (1982); joined the State Investigations Commission (1983); supervising judge of New York State Worker's Compensation Board (1984); elected to the New York State Assembly (1992); replaced Representative Floyd Flake in the US Congress; while in Congress, focused on economic development in home district, voted to give China permanent trade status, and lobbied for normalizing relations with Cuba; denounced government's response to aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2005); re-elected to Congress (2008, 2010))
Associated language	eng