Charlie King

Who is Charlie King?

Charlie King is an attorney, politician, and civic leader in New York. After graduating from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, he attended Brown University, and New York University Law School.

King served as the chairman of the Democratic County Committee in New York County.King was a volunteer attorney for the Mollen Commission in the early 1990s, and was a member of the Election Monitoring Committee in South Africa when Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994.

In 1999 he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the regional director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for New York and New Jersey, serving in this post until 2001.

King served as the acting Executive Director for National Action Network, Al Sharpton's not for profit organization from April 2007-April 2009. King also represented the witnesses connected to the killing of Sean Bell by the New York Police Department.

In April 2010, King was appointed executive director of the New York State Democratic Party.

King is also a frequent host of Reverend Al Sharpton's nationally syndicated radio show, "Keeping it Real".