NEW YORK (PIX11/CNN) – Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo has died at the age of 82 on New Year's Day, his son Chris Cuomo confirmed. Cuomo died just hours after son Gov. Andrew Cuomo was sworn in for his
The death Thursday of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo at age 82 brought forth a flood of tributes recalling a man President Obama called "a determined champion of progressive values." Cuomo died of heart failure on the same day his son, Andrew
Cuomo graduated from St. John's Law School in 1956, tied for top class honors, and soon after went into private practice. He came to the attention of New York City's political community in 1972 when he successfully mediated a housing dispute in Queens
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, a U.S. senator who went on to serve as Secretary of State during the Obama administration, said: "It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a
Former New York governor Mario Cuomo has passed away on Thursday from heart failure at the age of 82. Cuomo, who governed New York from 1983 to 1994, was a much venerated Democrat whose name topped many