Tenney, Claudia, 1961-

<p>Claudia Tenney was first elected to serve as a member of the United States House of Representatives on November 8, 2016, after winning one of the most expensive races in the nation. As a freshman member of the 115th Congress, she served on the House Financial Services Committee.</p>

<p>Claudia was elected to the House of Representatives for a second time in November 2020, in what was yet again among the most expensive and competitive congressional races in the country.</p>

<p>Prior to her election in November 2016, Claudia served as a member of the New York State Assembly. She was first elected to the Assembly on November 2, 2010.</p>

<p>Claudia L. Tenney (born February 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 22nd congressional district since 2021, having previously represented the district from 2017 to 2019. Her district covers a large part of Central New York, extending from the east end of Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border and includes the cities of Utica, Rome and Binghamton.</p>

<p>A member of the Republican Party, Tenney served in the New York State Assembly from 2011 to 2017. In 2014, she challenged incumbent U.S. Representative Richard L. Hanna in the Republican primary and lost. Tenney was elected to Congress in 2016 after Hanna retired. She narrowly lost reelection to Democrat Anthony Brindisi in 2018. Tenney challenged Brindisi in 2020; the seat remained vacant at the start of the 117th United States Congress. On February 5, 2021, New York Supreme Court Judge Scott DelConte ruled in Tenney's favor, allowing her to be declared the winner of the 2020 election. She assumed office 6 days later.</p>

<p>Early in her career, Tenney was the only American employed by the Consulate General of Yugoslavia. She acted as intermediary between ABC Sports and the Yugoslavian government leading up to the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.</p>

TENNEY, Claudia, a Representative from New York; born in New Hartford, Oneida County, N.Y., February 4, 1961; graduated from New Hartford High School, New Hartford, N.Y., 1979; B.A., Colgate University, Hamilton Township, N.Y., 1983; J.D., Cincinnati University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1987; staff, consulate general of Yugoslavia; media owner; lawyer, private practice; member of the New York state assembly, 2011-2016; unsuccessful candidate for election to the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress in 2014; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress (January 3, 2017-January 3, 2019); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress in 2018; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress (January 3, 2021-present).