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Cuomo takes over

Jan 02, 2011 1:42 am
[caption id="attachment_2087" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Andrew Cuomo gladhanding after campaign kickoff speech at BRIK Gallery in Catskill, 071710. Photo by Tom Roe/WGXC."]Andrew Cuomo[/caption]Andrew Cuomo is now the 56th Governor of New York (his father Mario was 52nd). The New York Times has text of his entire speech from Albany yesterday here. Below, the Associated Press posted a video of his swearing in Friday night at the Capitol. Ten New York governors have been major-party candidates for U.S. president, and six - Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt - have won. Six New York governors have gone on to serve as U.S. vice president, according to Wikipedia.