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Mario Cuomo giving a speech in 2007. The Cuomo family (/ ˈ k w oʊ m oʊ / KWOH-moh, Italian:) is an American political family. It includes Mario Cuomo and Matilda Cuomo (née Raffa) and their five children: Margaret, Andrew, Maria, Madeline Cuomo, and Christopher. Mario Cuomo and his son Andrew Cuomo both have served as governor of New York.
Cuomo was born in the Briarwood section of the New York City borough of Queens to a family of Italian origin. His grandfather Donato came to the US in 1896. [ 6 ] Mario Cuomo's father, Andrea Cuomo, was born in New York City in 1901 but in 1904, aged two or three, was taken back to a mountain village outside Salerno , Campania , returning to ...
Matilda Cuomo (born Mattia Raffa on September 16, 1931) is an American advocate for women and children, former First Lady of New York from 1983 to 1994, and matriarch of the Cuomo family. She is the widow of Governor of New York Mario Cuomo and mother of Andrew Cuomo who also served as Governor of New York before resigning in August 2021 and ...
The 90-year-old matriarch spoke with ELLE.com for Mother's Day.
Cuomo has nearly universal name recognition with him and his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, being in the public eye since the 1970s, which political pundits have told The Post is likely helping ...
Raffa was born circa 1904 and emigrated to the United States from Messina, Italy in 1927. He was married to Mary Gitto, and had five children, Frank, Matilda, Sam, Joseph and Nancy.
Cuomo is one of five children born to Italian Americans Mario and Matilda Cuomo in Queens. He earned his B.A. from Fordham University in 1979 and went on to obtain his J.D. from Albany Law School ...
Andrew Mark Cuomo was born on December 6, 1957, [27] in the New York City borough of Queens to lawyer and later governor of New York Mario Cuomo and Matilda (née Raffa). [28] His parents were both of Italian descent; his paternal grandparents were from Nocera Inferiore and Tramonti in the Campania region of southern Italy, while his maternal ...