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By Vicki Choi 876 words

Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, xx (insert age), the 107th mayor of New York City,

lawyer, and businessman, died on xx (day), (date). Giuliani, who had died as a result of xx (cause

of death), lived in New York, N.Y., at the time of his death.

Giuliani became the first Republican elected mayor of New York City since John Lindsay in

1965. He served two terms from 1994 to 2001. Before becoming mayor, Rudy Giuliani served as

the third United States Associate Attorney General in 1981, rising to the position of U.S.

Attorney after John S. Martin, Jr. in 1983.

Rudy Giulianis name will be associated with Ground Zero and his efforts to bring the city back

up on its feet will be remembered forever. Giuliani was a prominent figure during and after the

September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, making frequent appearances on radio

and television in order to boost American morale and offer his condolences to the victims of

terrorism.

Tomorrow New York is going to be here. And we're going to rebuild, and we're going to be

stronger than we were before... I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the

country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us, said Giuliani in a public

statement in 2001.

His accumulated experience from his two terms as mayor became a platform for Giuliani to run

for U.S. Senate in 2000 and for Republican Party nomination in the 2008 presidential election.

However, he withdrew running for the Senate when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and

after his indecent private love life was exposed. Giulianis relationship with Judith Nathan while

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still married to his second wife and local television personality Donna Hanover received much

criticism by the public.

Giuliani has been married three times. He is survived by his wife, the former Judith Nathan,

whom he married in 2003; Andrew and Caroline, two children from his previous marriage to

Donna Hanover in 1984, and his first wife, Regina Peruggi.

Diagnosed with prostate cancer like his father, Giuliani received a combination of treatments

over a period of 11 months at Mount Sinai Medical Center at age 55 after an elevated screening

for Prostate-specific antigen. The treatments consisted of neoadjuvant Lupron hormonal therapy,

low dose prostate brachytherapy, followed by five sessions of external beam radiotherapy per

week for a total of five weeks.

More than a decade has passed since terrorism in the Big Apple. However, Giuliani is still

remembered and was internationally recognized for leading the city in a time of great disorder.

He received his honorary knighthood from Britains Queen Elizabeth II on February 13, 2002.

"For an American, it gives you a sense of where we came from -- our legal system and our

democracy, said Giuliani in an interview with PEOPLE Magazine after the palace ceremony in

2002. This is part of our heritage.

Time Magazine named Giuliani "Person of the Year" for 2001, Former First Lady Nancy Reagan

awarded Giuliani the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award in 2002, and in the same year, the

Episcopal Diocese of New York gave Giuliani the Fiorello LaGuardia Public Service Award for

Valor and Leadership in the Time of Global Crisis. In the January 2002 issue of O, The Oprah

Magazine, Oprah Winfrey introduced Giuliani as Americas Mayor.

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Thinking back to the time at the debris-covered Ground Zero, Giuliani said he has been to more

funerals than he can count.

There was even a sharp increase in the approval rating among New York City voters. According

to a survey conducted by Quinnipiac University near the end of his term, Giuliani received a 79

percent approval, in comparison to the 36 percent rating he had received the year before. Giuliani

remained politically active in the Republican Party even after his mayoralty. In 2004, he spoke at

the Republican National Convention and expressed his support for the re-election of President

George W. Bush.

Giuliani also founded a security consulting business called Giuliani Partners LLC, which earned

more than $100 million. Giuliani has denied several allegations by various media outlets that

labeled the company as a lobbying entity and he eventually stepped down as CEO in June 2007.

In late 2009, Giuliani made public their security consulting contract with Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

regarding the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Born into a long lineage of Italian immigrants on May 28, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York, Giuliani

is the only child of first-generation working-class Americans, Harold Angelo Giuliani and Helen

ne D'Avanzo. Giuliani graduated from Manhattan College in 1965, majoring in political science

with a minor in philosophy. In addition, Giuliani earned a law degree from New York University

School of Law in Manhattan, where he made law review and graduated cum laude with a Juris

Doctor in 1968.

Although he was raised a Roman Catholic, Giuliani preferred to keep church and state separate

throughout his political career, refraining to speak publicly about religion.

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"My religious affiliation, my religious practices and the degree to which I am a good or not-so-

good Catholic, I prefer to leave to the priests, answered Giuliani to a voter who asked if he was

a "traditional, practicing Roman Catholic.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

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Reference Link

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/bio.html

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/new-york-city/release-

detail?ReleaseID=547

http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-with-Rudy-Giuliani/2

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299205,00.html#ixzz1oE6nP3bx