Jamaal Bowman

A Representative from New York. Born in Manhattan, New York County, N. Y. , April 1, 1976. Graduated from Sayreville War Memorial High School, Sayreville, N. J. Attended Potomac State Junior College, West Virginia University, Keyser, W. Va. B. A. , University of New Haven, West Haven, Conn. , 1999. M. A. , Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. , 2006. Ed. D. , Manhattanville College, Harrison, N. Y. , 2019. Teacher. Principal. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Seventeenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2021&ndash. January 3, 2025). Censured by the U. S. House of Representatives on December 7, 2023, for having "forced the evacuation of the Cannon House Office Building and disrupted the work of the Congress as a vote was underway on the floor of the House". Unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress in 2024.