{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Patrick M. Gallivan | image = File:(06-18-19) NY State Senator Patrick Gallivan during Senate Session at the NY State Capitol, Albany NY (cropped).jpg | term_start = | term_end = | preceded = | succeeded = | office2 = 52nd Sheriff of Erie County | term_start2 = 1998 | term_end2 = 2005 | preceded2 = Thomas F. Higgins | succeeded2 = Timothy B. Howard | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|11|18}} | birth_place = | party = Republican | spouse = Mary Pat Gallivan | website = {{URL|https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/patrick-m-gallivan|Official website}} | caption = | constituency1 = 59th District {{nowrap|(2011–2022)}} <br/> 60th District {{nowrap|(2023–present)}} | term_start1 = January 1, 2011 | office1 = Member of the New York State Senate | preceded1 = Dale Volker }}
'''Patrick M. Gallivan''' (born November 18, 1960)<ref name="capwiz">{{cite web |url=http://ny.ala.capwiz.com/ala/ny/bio/id/16044 |title=New York Library Association - Sen. Patrick Gallivan (R-New York) biography |publisher=ny.ala.capwiz.com |access-date=2016-04-03 |archive-date=2020-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209022859/http://capwiz.com/capwiznews/capwiz-product.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> is a member of the New York State Senate and the former Sheriff of Erie County. Gallivan's district, the 60th, comprises portions of Erie County, the entirety of Wyoming County, the northern half of Livingston County and the towns of Henrietta and Wheatland in Monroe County.<ref name="nysenate">{{cite web|url=http://www.nysenate.gov/district/59 |title=NY Senate District 59 | NY State Senate |publisher=nysenate.gov|access-date=2016-04-03}}</ref>
==Biography== Gallivan was elected Sheriff of Erie County in 1998 and served through 2005.<ref name="erie">{{cite web|url=http://www.erie.gov/sheriff/about.asp |title= ECSO: About the Erie County Sheriff's Office |publisher=erie.gov|access-date=2016-04-03}}</ref> Prior to being elected Sheriff, Patrick Gallivan served 15 years in the New York State Police, rising through the ranks from Trooper to Captain. Between his time as Sheriff and as a New York State Senator, Gallivan served as a commissioner on the state parole board.
After the retirement of incumbent senator Dale Volker, Gallivan defeated former Erie County Republican Party chairman James Domagalski and David DiPietro in a three-way Republican primary in September 2010, going on to defeat Democrat Cynthia Appleton and DiPietro (who continued to run on a line labeled "Tea") in the general election in November of the same year. In 2011, Gallivan voted against allowing same-sex marriage in New York during the senate roll-call vote on the Marriage Equality Act, which legally recognized same-sex marriages performed in the state, in a closely divided Senate vote of 33-29.<ref>http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/a8354-2011 Marriage Equality Act roll call</ref>
==Personal== Gallivan lives in Elma, New York, with his wife, Mary Pat, and their two children, Jenna and Conor.
Gallivan's cousin, Pete Gallivan, is a reporter and anchor for Buffalo television station WGRZ.
==Education== Patrick Gallivan holds a master's degree in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany and is a graduate of Canisius College<ref name="canisius">{{cite web|url=http://www.canisius.edu/alumni/newsletter/online_newsdec03.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909111123/http://www.canisius.edu/alumni/newsletter/online_newsdec03.asp |archive-date=2006-09-09 |url-status=dead |title=Canisius College - Canisius On-line Newsletter -- December 2003 |access-date=2016-04-03}}</ref> in Buffalo. He is a graduate of both the FBI National Executive Institute and the FBI National Academy, and is a past member of the New York State Executive Committee on Counter-Terrorism.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/pat-gallivan}} *[http://gallivanforsenate.com Campaign Website]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallivan, Patrick}} Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators Category:Sheriffs of Erie County, New York Category:People from Elma, New York Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century members of the New York State Legislature