Steve Englebright | |
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Member of the
New York State Assembly from the 4th district | |
In office February 19, 1992 – December 31, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Robert J. Gaffney |
Succeeded by | Edward Flood |
Personal details | |
Born | Queens, New York, U.S. | August 24, 1946
Political party | Democratic |
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Steven C. Englebright (born August 24, 1946 [1]) was the Assembly member for the 4th District of the New York Assembly from 1992 until his defeat in 2022. He is a Democrat.
Englebright was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1992. He was the chair of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation. [2]
Englebright graduated from Bayside High School in Queens, New York. [3] He received a B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee in 1969 and an M.S. in Paleontology/ Sedimentology from Stony Brook University in 1974. [4]
He worked as Curator of Geologic Collections at Stony Brook University and was the founding director of the Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences. Englebright served as a Suffolk County legislator from 1983 until his election to the New York State Assembly in 1992. [1] [5]
Englebright was defeated in the 2022 election by Edward Flood. [6]
In 2023, Englebright was re-elected to the Suffolk County Legislature in the 5th Legislative District, a seat he previously occupied prior to his tenure in the Assembly. [7]