Jeffries, Hakeem
person
Biography
Hakeem Sekou Jeffries ( hah-KEEM; born August 4, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2013 as the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district. From 2007 to 2012, he represented the 57th district in the New York State Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party, Jeffries has served since 2023 as the leader of the House Democratic Caucus and House minority leader. Jeffries was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn and raised in the Crown Heights neighborhood. He attended law school at New York University, graduating with honors and becoming a corporate lawyer before running for elected office. Both his state assembly district and congressional district are anchored in Brooklyn. In Congress, Jeffries chaired the House Democratic Caucus from 2019 to 2023. The members of the caucus unanimously elected him to succeed Nancy Pelosi as leader in November 2022. This made him the first African American to lead a party in either chamber of the United States Congress.
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Core attributes
- Canonical name
- Jeffries, Hakeem
- First name
- Hakeem
- Last name
- Jeffries
- Occupation
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- Year of birth
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Source and freshness
Last pulled: 5 days ago (2026-07-10)
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US Congress Legislators (unitedstates/congress-legislators) (campaign_finance/federal/congress)
Source record ID: house:J000294
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Identifiers
- bioguide_id
- J000294
- fec_candidate_id
- H2NY10092
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- H2NY10092
- govtrack_id
- 412561
- wikidata_id
- Q5640425