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Here's a look at the life of Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Birthdate: February 14, 1942
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Birth name: Michael Rubens Bloomberg
Father: William Henry Bloomberg, accountant
Mother: Charlotte (Rubens) Bloomberg, Office Manager
Marriage: Susan Brown (1976-1993, divorced)
Children: Georgina, 1983; Emma, 1979
Education: Johns Hopkins University, BS in Electrical Engineering, 1964; Harvard Business School, MBA, 1966
Religion: Jew
One of four New York City mayors to serve three terms.
He left the Democratic Party in 2001 and won his first two terms as mayor as a Republican. He won his third term as mayor as an independent and then rejoined the Democratic Party in 2018.
Diana Taylor has been his partner for over 20 years.
As mayor of New York, Bloomberg made sweeping changes to schools, city transportation, including expanding subway lines, and public health, implementing sweeping regulations targeting smoking and obesity.
Since 2006, Bloomberg Philanthropies, an umbrella organization of Bloomberg charities that includes the nonprofit Bloomberg Family Foundation, has donated billions to political interests and causes such as education, the environment and public health.
1966-1981 – He worked as an administrator and later as a partner at Salomon Brothers in New York.
1981 – Co-founded Bloomberg LP (formerly Innovative Market Systems) through a $10 million partnership purchase of Salomon Brothers.
1982 – It creates the Bloomberg Terminal, a software system with a specialized keyboard used by financial professionals to trade stocks electronically and access live market data.
1990 – Co-founded Bloomberg News (formerly Bloomberg Business News).
1994 – Launches Bloomberg Television (formerly Bloomberg Information TV).
1996-2002 – He serves as chairman of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University.
1997 – His memoirs, “Bloomberg by Bloomberg,” are published.
November 6, 2001 – He is elected mayor of New York.
November 8, 2005 – He is elected for a second term.
November 3, 2009 – He is elected to a third term after spending more than $100 million on his re-election campaign. In October, the New York City Council voted to expand the city's mayoral term limits from two four-year terms to three.
May 2012 – Announces a proposal to ban the sale of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces in restaurants, food carts and any other establishment that receives letter grades for food service. On June 26, 2014, the New York Court of Appeals rules that New York City's ban on large sugary drinks, which was previously blocked by lower courts, is illegal.
July 27, 2016 – He endorses Hillary Clinton for president at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
November 24, 2019 – He announces his recent Democratic presidential bid, unveiling a campaign aimed squarely at defeating President Donald Trump.
November 24, 2019 – Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait releases a statement on how the network will cover the 2020 presidential campaign and reveals that it will not investigate Bloomberg or any other Democratic candidate.
February 10, 2020 –Audio of Bloomberg from 2015 is posted online, defending his use of “stop and frisk” as mayor by describing the policy as a way to reduce violence by throwing minority children “against walls and frisking.”[ing] to them.” Bloomberg later says that his 2015 comments about the controversial stop-and-frisk police policy do not reflect his thinking or the way he led as mayor of New York City.
February 18, 2020 –He qualifies for his first Democratic presidential debate, polling four times with 10% or more at the national level.
February 18, 2020 –A campaign adviser tells CNN that Bloomberg would sell his media and financial information company if elected president, in an effort to be “180 degrees from where Donald Trump is on these issues.”
February 19, 2020 –He faces criticism in the first presidential debate from other Democratic candidates regarding campaign spending, his record on police tactics as mayor of New York and misogynistic comments he allegedly made about women at his company in the 1980s and 1990s.
March 4, 2020 –He ends his presidential campaign and endorses Joe Biden.
September 3, 2020 –Bloomberg's charity, Bloomberg Philanthropies, announces it will donate $100 million to the nation's four historically black medical schools to help alleviate the burden of student debt for the next generation of black doctors.
September 25, 2020 –Bloomberg announces $40 million in television ads supporting Biden throughout the state of Florida.
February 2, 2022 –Joseph Beecher is arrested, accused of breaking into the Colorado ranch owned by Bloomberg and kidnapping a Bloomberg employee. Beecher demanded to know the location of Bloomberg's daughters, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Beecher was found in Wyoming with the employee, who was unharmed.
February 9, 2022 –He is nominated to serve as chairman of the Defense Innovation Board. Bloomberg will be sworn in on June 22, 2022.
September 20, 2023 –Announces an additional commitment of $500 million to continue Beyond Carbon's goal of closing coal plants and reducing gas plant capacity.
