birth_date residence term_end alma_mater state_senate profession term_start spouse image name caption predecessor birth_place party office state district successor religion article_title
1 march 1970 buffalo , new york , u.s. january 2 , 2011 january 3 , 2007 state university of new york at brockport new york state politician january 3 , 2007 january 4 , 2001 merle thompson ; 2 children 20081029_antoine_thompson . jpg antoine thompson new obama rally at the erie county democratic headquarters -lrb- october york 29 , 2008 -rrb- state senator thompson speaks at a barack marc coppola byron brown buffalo , new york , u.s. democrat member district of the buffalo common council from the masten new york 60th mark grisanti demone smith baptist antoine thompson

antoine thompson

antoine maurice thompson -lrb- born march 1 , 1970 -rrb- was a democratic new york state senator who represented the state 's 60th senate district , which includes parts of buffalo and tonawanda , the city of niagara falls and the town of grand island .
thompson previously served for six years as the masten district councilman in the buffalo common council .
thompson has been a lifelong buffalonian and held political and politically related professional positions in buffalo before his service in elective politics .
thompson was appointed to the city council in 2001 and was twice re-elected .
he was discouraged from pursuing his interest in election to the united states house of representatives in 2005 .
he was encouraged to pursue a new york senate seat , but was not nominated by the democratic party when the seat first became available in a special election .
however , during the 2006 general election for the seat , he was victorious .
thompson was challenged in the 2008 primary by the current holder of the seat but was victorious and was unchallenged in the november election .
in 2010 thompson won a 3-way primary battle but lost to mark grisanti , a democrat who ran as a republican .
after the election grisanti became a republican .
