Feb. 3, 1998:
The House seat of Floyd Flake, leaving Congress to focus on his church, goes to Gregory Meeks in a special election.
State Assemblyman Gregory Meeks (D) wins a special election in New York's 6th Congressional District, in Queens, to fill the seat of Rep. Floyd Flake (D), who resigned to lead an African Methodist Episcopal church in the area.
Flake endorsed Meeks as his successor. Since the special election, which he won with 56 percent of the vote, Meeks has not faced any electoral opposition. He won a sixth full term last November. In 2004 he was a national co-chair of the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He was among those thought to be under consideration earlier this year to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.
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