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An engineer for the New York Public Service Commission, Tonko became active in local politics in the early 1970s and successfully ran for the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors. He was a member of the board from 1976 to 1983, and the board's chairman from 1981 to 1983.
Mar 26, 2014 · “The engineering was drawing on my strength academically,” said Tonko. “The politics was drawing on my soulfulness, wanting to be there, make a difference for people.” When Tonko entered politics in the 70s, there was a lot of discontent following the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.
Paul is the first upstate New York Democratic member of the committee since Leo O'Brien, who resigned the post in October 1966. Previously, Paul has served on the Science, Space and Technology Committee, Natural Resources Committee, Budget Committee and Education and Workforce Committee.
Mar 25, 2024 · It was the Communist Party that brought for the first time in Indian politics the peasant question on a class basis. The legend of Hajong Mata Rashmoni In 1946, when the Hajong rebellion was at its peak, the government set up police camps at several places in the Tonko area.
Feb 4, 2019 · Intro. MICHAEL WALDMAN: American politics is polarized. We all know that. We’re divided into different camps — suspicious, sometimes hateful. It didn’t start yesterday. Princeton historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer say that polarization has been widening since 1974.
New Deal Era. During the 1930s, the beginning of modern conservatism was born with opposition towards the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Conservative (mostly Midwestern) Republicans and Southern Democrats united for the first time, and distinct characteristics of modern conservatism began to appear.
Sep 12, 2019 · According to French historian Marcel Gauchet’s essay “Right and Left,” the process of right and left becoming primary categories of political identity was “a long drawn-out process that lasted...
