Frank Skartados
Frank Skartados | |
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| Member of the New York State Assembly from the 104th district | |
| In office March 21, 2012 – April 15, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Kirwan |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan Jacobson |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from the 100th district | |
| In office January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Kirwan |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Kirwan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 3, 1956 Astypalea, Greece |
| Died | April 15, 2018 (aged 62) Newburgh, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at New Paltz (BA) California State University, Sacramento (MA) |
| Profession | Politician, businessman |
Frank Skartados (January 3, 1956 – April 15, 2018; Greek: Φρανκ Σκαρτάδος) was a Greek-American politician and businessman.
Skartados was a member of the Democratic Party. A resident of the Ulster County hamlet of Milton, where he ran a farm, he was the Assemblyman for the 104th district of the New York State Assembly in the mid-Hudson, which includes both the city and town of Newburgh, the cities of Beacon, and Poughkeepsie, the hamlet of Marlboro, and the town of Lloyd. He defeated 14-year Republican incumbent Thomas J. Kirwan in 2008 for what was then the 100th district, but narrowly lost to him two years later in a contest not formally decided for four months.
Kirwan died less than a year into his term, and Skartados won the 2012 special election to fill the seat, the first election held for what was now the redrawn 104th district, which excluded some areas of Ulster County that were heavily Republican. He went on to win the general election that year and re-election in 2014 and 2016. After his death from pancreatic cancer in April 2018, Skartados was succeeded by Jonathan Jacobson.