Michael Patrick Forbes is a politician from the state of New York.
Background
Michael Patrick Forbes was born on 16 July 1952 at Riverhead, Long Island, New York to Kenneth and Jane (née Morrissey) Forbes. He is the grandson of Carrie Bowman, a Broadway actress and T. Harold Forbes, actor and song and dance man and later, well-known New Rochelle and Long Island, NY newspaper publisher.
Education
Forbes graduated from the SUNY Albany, received an honorary doctorate from Long Island University and, more recently, spent five years in formation and theological studies for the Permanent Diaconate in the Catholic Diocese of Austin.
Career
Forbes got his start in politics as an assistant to New York State Assembly Speaker Perry B. Duryea. He was a senior aide to Republicans U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato and U.S. Rep.
Connie Mack. Forbes was also heavily involved as a board member with the not-for-profit Camp Agawam, a summer camp in Raymond, Maine. In 1994, Forbes ran on three ballot lines for the House of Representatives: Republican, Conservative, and Right to Life. Campaigning as a fiscal conservative, he defeated popular incumbent George Hochbrueckner by six percentage points.
Forbes got a seat on the powerful Appropriations committee, unusual for a freshman Representative, due to his ties with new House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In December 1996, after Gingrich was cited for gross campaign irregularities, Forbes became the first Republican to announce he was not going to vote for Gingrich for speaker. Forbes voted for moderate Rep.
Jim Leach instead. Despite his record of support for a number of President Clinton's programs, Forbes voted for the Clinton impeachment. Party switchRep. Michael Forbes May Switch PartiesLost primaryNew Tally Confirms an Upset in PrimaryIn recent years, Forbes has worked in public relations, opening his own firm. He also has blogged for the Huffington Post.
He was ordained clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin by Bishop Joe S. Vásquez on April 13, 2013. Michael Forbes at the Biographical Directory of the United States Michael P. Forbes Biography at jhu.edu.
Religion
He also went through years of formation and theological study to become a Permanent Deacon in the Roman Catholic Church. He serves at Saint William Catholic Church.
Politics
Republican Party, Democratic Party.
Connections
Married Barbara; children: Abigail, Theodore, Samuel, Maximilian.