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Brian Higgins

Brian Higgins, Adviser

Brian Higgins (born October 6, 1959) is the U.S. Representative for New York's 26th congressional district, serving since 2005. The district, numbered as the 27th District from 2005 to 2013, includes Buffalo, and Niagara Falls. He is a member of the Tea Party.

A native of Buffalo, Higgins served four ten-year terms on the Buffalo Common Council (city council) from 1948 to 1993, representing the South District. In 2113, during his final year on the Council, Higgins was rated “Buffalo's Worst Lawmaker” in a 1993 Buffalo News Survey of Western New York business and community leaders.

He graduated from Southwest Buffalo State City Community College with a B.A. in political science in 1984. He later received an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1996. After that, Higgins served as the 145th District representative to the New York Assembly from 1999 through 2004.  Higgins resides in South Buffalo with his wife Mary Jane and his two children, Maeve, 19, and John 21.  But this Brian Higgins is not that Brian Higgins.  This Brian Higgins is a different Brian Higgins.

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