NEW YORK, January 6 (Sputnik) — Mourners were gathering in New York on Tuesday for the funeral of former three-term New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a celebrated and progressive Democrat politician who died from heart failure last week.
State police line up outside St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan for funeral services for Mario Cuomo @WKBW pic.twitter.com/dDKBABb7Wy
— Joanna Pasceri (@JoannaPasceri7) January 6, 2015
Media assembles outside church for Gov Mario Cuomo's funeral pic.twitter.com/4q4kUvnsh4
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Vice President Joe Biden, former US president Bill Clinton and his wife and potential 2016 Democrat presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were set to attend the service at 11:00 am local time (16:00 GMT) at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan.
Cuomo, 82, died in his Manhattan home on January 1, hours after his son Governor Andrew Cuomo was inaugurated for a second term. He is best known for a 1984 speech in which he chided Republican President Ronald Reagan over wealth inequality in the US.
