Bill Thompson (New York)
William Colridge Bill or Billy Thompson, Jr. is an American politician who was the 42nd Comptroller of New York City. Sworn into office on January 1, 2002, he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1, 2006. He did not seek reelection in 2009, instead running for mayor, and was succeeded as comptroller by John Liu.
Thompson was born and raised in the BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is the son of Elaine Thompson, a New York City publicschool teacher, and William C. Thompson, Sr., formerly a prominent Brooklyn Democratic Party leader, City Councilman, State Senator and judge on New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division. His grandparents immigrated to New York City from St. Kitts in the Caribbean. Thompson attended Midwood High School, a public school in Brooklyn, and graduated from Tufts University in 1974.
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