Eliot Engel

Eliot Engel
Official portrait, 2003
Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
In office
January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2021
Preceded byEd Royce
Succeeded byGregory Meeks
Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
In office
January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2019
Preceded byHoward Berman
Succeeded byMichael McCaul
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from New York
In office
January 3, 1989 – January 3, 2021
Preceded byMario Biaggi
Succeeded byJamaal Bowman
Constituency19th district (1989–1993)
17th district (1993–2013)
16th district (2013–2021)
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 81st district
In office
March 7, 1977 – January 1, 1989
Preceded byAlan Hochberg
Succeeded byStephen B. Kaufman
Personal details
Born
Eliot Lance Engel

(1947-02-18) February 18, 1947 (age 77)
New York City, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpousePatricia Ennis
Children3
Residence(s)The Bronx, New York, U.S.
EducationLehman College (BA, MS)
New York Law School (JD)

Eliot Lance Engel (/ˈɛŋɡəl/; born February 18, 1947) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from New York from 1989 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented a district covering portions of the north Bronx and southern Westchester County.

In 2019, following Democratic gains in the 2018 elections, he took over as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; he previously was its ranking member from 2013, following Howard Berman's reelection defeat in 2012.

He had won his first congressional election in 1989 by defeating Mario Biaggi, who did not campaign though his name was on the ballot. In 2020, after 16 terms in office, Engel was defeated in the Democratic primary by middle school principal Jamaal Bowman.