Anthony Palumbo


Anthony H. Palumbo is the Assembly member for the 2nd District of the New York Assembly. He is a Republican. The district includes portions of the town of Brookhaven, and all of the towns of Riverhead and Southold on the North Fork of Long Island.
Palumbo attended high school at Patchogue-Medford High School where he starred as a baseball player earning an athletic scholarship to Lafayette College. In 1992, Palumbo was named to the All-Patriot League baseball team. In 1994 Palumbo graduated with a bachelor's degree in Government and Law from Lafayette College.
He attended the St. John's University School of Law and after his graduation in 1998 immediately began his career in public service as an assistant district attorney. He was eventually promoted to the position of trial supervisor to the five eastern Suffolk County towns under District Attorney Tom Spota. He left the District Attorney's office in 2004 to open a small law practice in Mattituck.
Palumbo resides in New Suffolk, New York with his wife Tracy and two children.

Career

New York State Assembly

Palumbo's first political campaign was his 2013 race against for the open 2nd Assembly District. On November 5, 2013 Anthony Palumbo defeated Democrat John McManmon with 57% of the vote. In 2014 he ran for re-election against Democratic challenger Thomas Schirilo. Palumbo received 63% of the vote. He easily won election again in 2016 and 2018.
In 2019, Palumbo sponsored a bill to allow parents to expand college savings accounts and allow parents to withdraw from them in order to pay for elementary and secondary school education without paying taxes on that money.

New York State Senate

After Senator Kenneth P. LaValle announced he would not be running for reelection after 44 years in the New York State Senate, Anthony Palumbo announced he would run for the seat in 2020. Palumbo has been endorsed by the Republican Party and the Conservative Party.