Sullivan, Jr., who recently retired as New York State’s Deputy Medicaid Inspector General for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. He joined the OMIG office in 2008 after having served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s Watertown office for five years. An attorney with more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Sullivan began his political career at age 23,
when he was the youngest person to have been elected to the Oswego County Legislature in the county’s history. He went on to become the Mayor of the City of Oswego and also served as chair of the Oswego City Charter Revision Commission. As mayor of Oswego from 1988-92, along with his wife, he is credited with starting Oswego’s famous annual Harborfest celebration. A graduate of SUNY Oswego, he majored in political science, and then went on to graduate from Syracuse University’s College of Law. He served as chair of the SUNY Oswego College Council, as well as a council member, and as counsel to both the cities of Oswego and Fulton, and as attorney to the Oswego City School District. He had a successful law practice in Oswego for nearly 30 years. In 1995, he was named co-chair of the New York State Democratic Party. He served as co-chair of the New York State delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1996, and as a member of the Electoral College, also in 1996. He was a member of the Democratic National Committee and a founding member of the New York State Democratic Rural Conference. He just completed teaching political science at SUNY Oswego as an adjunct professor and taught a course on New York State Politics and Government at SUNY Albany’s Rockefeller School of Government for the spring 2009 semester. He is currently teaching American Government courses for Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Mo. In 2009 he was a finalist in the quest for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 23rd Congressional District in the race to succeed John McHugh, who has been named by President Obama as the new Secretary of the Army.
