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Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y. (27th CD), has posted the following biography on the members' Web site:
Brian Higgins was elected to New York's 27th District seat in the US House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, and took office as a member of the 109th Congress on January 3, 2005.
Brian is the son of immigrant and first-generation American parents, and is a proud lifelong resident of South Buffalo, New York. His father worked as a skilled tradesman, labor leader, and later as an elected and appointed official. His mother worked as a schoolteacher at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Buffalo's Old First Ward. Brian's grandparents came to America from counties Mayo and Kerry in Ireland, and his paternal grandfather was the first in a long line of Higgins family bricklayers.
Brian was elected in his own right to the Buffalo Common Council in 1987, where he served three two-year terms. After serving for five years, Brian was rated the best Buffalo lawmaker in a 1993 Buffalo News Survey of 350 Western New York business and community leaders. Brian was rated number one...
