Gregory Meeks

Gregory Meeks
Official portrait, 2018
Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Assumed office
January 3, 2023
Preceded byMichael McCaul
Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
In office
January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023
Preceded byEliot Engel
Succeeded byMichael McCaul
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York
Assumed office
February 5, 1998
Preceded byFloyd Flake
Constituency6th district (1998–2013)
5th district (2013–present)
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 31st district
In office
January 1, 1993 – January 3, 1998
Preceded byAnthony S. Seminerio
Succeeded byPauline Rhodd-Cummings
Personal details
Born
Gregory Weldon Meeks

(1953-09-25) September 25, 1953 (age 71)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseSimone-Marie Meeks
Children3
EducationAdelphi University (BA)
Howard University (JD)
WebsiteCampaign website
House website

Gregory Weldon Meeks (born September 25, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from New York since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party and chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023. He still sits on the committee as ranking member.

In the last Congress, Meeks's district included most of southeastern Queens, including Jamaica, Laurelton, Rosedale, Cambria Heights, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, The Rockaways, and the John F. Kennedy International Airport. It was made up largely of economically diverse African-American and West Indian American communities, but also included a small part of Ozone Park and part of Howard Beach known as Old Howard Beach, both of which are predominantly middle-class Italian-American communities. He also represented much of Kew Gardens and northern Richmond Hill, as well as the largely Irish American western part of Rockaway Peninsula.