Who is Eliot Spitzer?
Background Born in 1959, Spitzer is the youngest child of real-estate tycoon Bernard Spitzer. Eliot’s older brother, Daniel, is a neurosurgeon in New York’s Westchester County; his sister, Emily, is executive director of the District of Columbia Bar Foundation, which raises funds for legal-services organizations. The Spitzer children grew up in the fashionable Riverdale section of New York, although to sound tough Spitzer sometimes says “the Bronx,” which is technically correct. The boys attended the elite Horace Mann School, and Emily the elite girls school, Brearley. In 1977, Spitzer went on to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, established a good academic record, and was elected president of the student body. From that post, he assailed the university over divestiture and over higher wages for campus service workers. While attending Princeton, Spitzer spent part of a summer working as a laborer in the South and also traveled to upstate New York to
