What is Maurice Hinchey?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Maurice Hinchey | image name = Maurice Hinchey, Official portrait, 112th Congress.jpg | office1=Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]] <br>from [[New York (state)|New York]] | term_start1 = January 3, 1993 | term_end1 = January 3, 2013 | constituency1 = [[New York's 26th congressional district|26th district]] (1993–2003) <br> [[New York's 22nd congressional district|22nd district]] (2003–2013) | preceded3 = [[Matthew F. McHugh]] | succeeded3 = [[Richard L. Hanna]] | state_assembly4 = New York | district4 = 101st | term_start4 = January 1, 1975 | term_end4 = December 31, 1992 | preceded4 = H. Clark Bell | succeeded4 = [[Kevin Cahill]] | birth_name = Maurice Dunlea Hinchey | birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|10|27}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]] | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|2017|11|22|1938|10|27}}}} | death_place = [[Saugerties, New York]] | occupation = | alma_mater = [[State University of New York at New Paltz]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] | spouse = Ilene Marder Hinchey | children = [[Michelle Hinchey]] | branch = [[United States Navy]] | serviceyears = 1956–1959 }} '''Maurice Dunlea Hinchey''' (October 27, 1938 &ndash; November 22, 2017) was an American politician. He was a former [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[New York (state)|New York]]. He was a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. He retired at the end of his term in January 2013 after twenty years in Congress. ==Career== A New York City native who moved to the [[Hudson Valley]] where he attended high school and college, Hinchey had previously represented part of the area in the [[New York State Assembly]] since 1974. As chair of that body's Environmental Conservation Committee, he took the lead in bringing [[environmentalism|environmental]] issues to the fore, particularly when he held hearings on the problems created by toxic waste disposal in the [[Love Canal]] neighborhood