Tom Wilson

Who is Tom Wilson?

Tom Wilson is the Mayor of Tuxedo Park, New York and a 2012 Democratic candidate for the United States Congress in New York's newly re-drawn 18th District, which is composed of all Orange and Putnam Counties and parts of Westchester and Dutchess Counties.

Wilson's father was a United States Navy fighter pilot in Vietnam, a TWA pilot for 30 years, and also a member of the Airline Pilot's Union. Wilson himself attended public elementary school where he met his wife Alyssa in the 5th grade. After going through the Darien Public School System, Wilson was accepted into Bowdoin College and later worked in Bridgeport, CT, building inner-city public-private partnerships. For the last 11 years, he has worked in the financial services industry in Manhattan. He previously worked as an independent commodity trader on the floor of the New York Board of Trade at the World Trade Center.

Wilson got his start in public service when he co-founded the Tuxedo Land Trust in 2006 when he saw a $15 billion real estate developer trying to cut down 2,300 acres of forest to build 2,000 homes, and threaten contamination of drinking water for hundreds of thousands in the Ramapo River and Tuxedo Lake.