Enrico Anthony Lazio is an American attorney and former four-term U.S. Representative from the State of New York. A Long Island native, Lazio became well-known during his bid for U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election; he was defeated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Lazio also ran unsuccessfully for the 2010 New York State Republican Party gubernatorial nomination.
Lazio at a press conference with Sherwood Boehlert and Nancy Johnson in 2000
Lazio in 2015
2000 United States Senate election in New York
In the United States Senate election held in the State of New York on November 7, 2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton, then First Lady of the United States and the first First Lady to run for political office, defeated U.S. Representative Rick Lazio. The general election coincided with the U.S. presidential election.
2000 United States Senate election in New York
Rudy Giuliani was the presumptive Republican nominee for most of 1999 and 2000, until he abruptly withdrew on May 19 following a cancer diagnosis and the public collapse of his marriage to Donna Hanover.
Having won the election, Clinton is sworn in as the junior senator from New York, January 3, 2001.