N.Y. Democrat Newest Member of Congress
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<i> Associated Press</i>
NEW YORK — Democrat Gregory Meeks, a lawyer and former narcotics crime prosecutor who had been in the New York Assembly since 1992, is the newest member of Congress.
Meeks, 44, won a special election Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by Floyd H. Flake, a fellow Democrat who had represented the 6th Congressional District in the borough of Queens since 1986. Flake, who resigned last year to devote more time to church work, had endorsed Meeks.
Less than 10% of the middle-class district’s 265,000 registered voters cast ballots in the special election.
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