Nita M Lowey

Nita M. Lowey served in the United States House of Representatives from 1989-2021.

Lowey was born July 5, 1937, in the Bronx, in New York, New York. She completed her bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Prior to serving in Congress, Lowey worked for Mario Cuomo's 1974 campaign for lieutenant governor of New York, as deputy director of the New York State Division of Economic Opportunity from 1975 to 1985, and as the assistant secretary of state for New York from 1985 to 1987. She is the first woman and first New Yorker to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (2001 to 2003). In 2018, she became the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee.

Lowey passed away on March 15, 2025.

For more information on Lowey's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation during her time in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile on https://www.congress.gov.

Ballotpedia (n.d.). Nita Lowey. Retrieved on March 17, 2025,, from https://ballotpedia.org/Nita_Lowey