What is Herman Badillo?
{{Infobox Officeholder |name = Herman Badillo |image = Herman_Badillo.JPG |imagesize = 200px |caption = |state = [[New York]] |district = [[New York's 21st congressional district|21st]] |term_start = January 3, 1973 |term_end = December 31, 1977 |preceded = [[James H. Scheuer]] |succeeded = [[Robert Garcia (politician)|Robert Garcia]] |state2 = New York |district2 = [[New York's 22nd congressional district|22nd]] |term_start2 = January 3, 1971 |term_end2 = January 3, 1973 |preceded2 = [[Jacob H. Gilbert]] |succeeded2 = [[Jonathan B. Bingham]] |office3 = 8th [[Borough President]] of [[The Bronx]] |term_start3 = 1966 |term_end3 = 1970 |predecessor3 = [[Joseph F. Periconi]] |successor3 = [[Robert Abrams]] |birth_date = {{Birth date |1929|8|21|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Caguas, Puerto Rico|Caguas]], [[Puerto Rico]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|12|3|1929|8|21|mf=yes}} |death_place = [[Manhattan]], [[New York]], United States |nationality = [[United States]] |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] until the late 1990s; afterward [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] |spouse = |residence = |alma_mater = [[Brooklyn Law School]]<br/>[[City College of New York]] |occupation = Lawyer |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Herman Badillo''' (August 21, 1929 – December 3, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] politician. He was a [[borough president]], [[United States Representative]] and candidate for [[Mayor of New York City]]. He was the first Puerto Rican to have been elected to these posts and been a mayoral candidate in the continental United States. Badillo died on December 3, 2014 of congestive heart failure in [[Manhattan]], New York, aged 85.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/nyregion/herman-badillo-fixture-of-new-york-politics-dies-at-85.html|title=Herman Badillo, Congressman and Fixture of New York Politics, dies at 85|publisher=[[New York Ti