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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani was born May 28, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Manhattan College and the New York University School of Law. He served as Associate Attorney General in the Reagan Administration and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York among other government positions. He gained fame prosecuting high profile cases of insider trading and organized crime families. In 1993, he was elected Mayor of New York City and served through 2001. He is best remembered for his presence and leadership during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was Time Magazine's 2001 Person of the Year.
Rudolph W. "Rudy" Giuliani was the New York City mayor who became internationally famous for his composed reaction to attacks on the World Trade Center buildings on 11 September 2001. Giuliani, a 1968 graduate of New York University School of Law, began his political career in 1970 as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney. After a period in private practice in Washington, D.C. and a stint with Ronald Reagan's Department of Justice, Giuliani was appointed in 1983 as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Aggressive and ambitious, he made headlines by prosecuting Wall Street wheeler-dealers such as Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken and Marc Rich. He ran for mayor in 1989 and lost, ran again in 1993 and won. In spite of a successful run as a tough-on-crime mayor who improved city government, Giuliani's troubled personal life and long history of political squabbles dominated the headlines in the last part of his second term. Tabloids exploited public feuds between Giuliani, his wife, Donna Hanover, and his girlfriend, Judith Nathan; a series of police brutality cases were public relations disasters for the mayor's office; and a potential run at the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton was aborted when Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer.After the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center, Rudy rose to the occasion, and in the absence of President George W. Bush, whose whereabouts were unknown for several hours, it was Giuliani who was the voice of authority on American television. His response was hailed internationally and earned him the nickname of "America's Mayor." After his term as mayor Giuliani went into business and hit the lecture circuit, remaining in the public eye as a possible candidate for higher office. In November of 2006 he announced he would form a nonprofit committee to explore his prospects for running for the U.S. presidency in 2008. He is also a Republican.