Antonio Delgado
Antonio Ramon Delgado (born January 28, 1977) is an American attorney and politician serving as the lieutenant governor of New York since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Delgado served as the U.S. representative from New York's 19th congressional district from 2019 to 2022. He is the first African–American and the first person of Latino descent to be elected to Congress from Upstate New York as well as the first Latino to hold statewide office in New York.
On May 3, 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she had appointed Delgado to the then-vacant office of lieutenant governor of New York. On May 25, Delgado resigned from the House of Representatives and was sworn in as lieutenant governor. On November 8, he was elected to a full term as lieutenant governor. After public disagreements with Hochul, Delgado said in February 2025 that he would not seek reelection as lieutenant governor in 2026. In June 2025, he announced his candidacy for the 2026 Democratic nomination for governor of New York; he withdrew his candidacy in February 2026.
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