Pat Ryan (politician)

On September 9, 2022, Ryan stepped down as Ulster County Executive. The deputy county executive, Johanna Contreras, was sworn in as acting county executive that day.

After Delgado resigned from Congress on May 25, 2022, to become lieutenant governor of New York, Ryan announced that he would run in the special election to succeed Delgado. Ryan was chosen as the Democratic nominee on June 9 at a meeting of Democratic county party chairs.

Molinaro and Ryan both ran for Congress again in the general elections in November 2022 for the newly redrawn 19th and 18th districts, respectively. Each won in his respective district.

In November 2022, Ryan contested the state's 18th district, which was changed from its previous configuration after redistricting. On the same day as his special election victory in the 19th district, Ryan won the Democratic nomination for the regular election in the 18th district. He defeated Republican nominee Colin Schmitt in the general election.

On January 14, 2020, Ryan endorsed Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. In a statement, Ryan cited Buttigieg's military service, his "bold progressive vision", and his "moral leadership" as his reasons for support.

In the August 23 special election, Ryan faced Republican nominee and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro. Ryan was seen as the underdog as every poll had him trailing Molinaro and many believed that President Joe Biden's unpopularity would hinder Democrats in the swing district. Ryan narrowly defeated Molinaro by 2,858 votes, 51.1%–48.8%, which was considered an upset. He outperformed Biden's 2020 margin in the district by 0.8%. In explaining his victory, political observers noted that Ryan campaigned strongly in favor of protecting abortion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. His victory was attributed to college-educated voters', particularly women's, support for abortion rights.

In February 2019, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein resigned to take a position in New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration. On April 30, Ryan defeated Republican nominee Jack Hayes in the special election to succeed Hein; he took office on June 7, 2019. He became the second executive of Ulster County since it adopted a county charter in 2008. In November 2019, he defeated Hayes in a rematch to win a full four-year term as county executive.

Ryan first ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. In the Democratic primary in New York's 19th congressional district, he received 18% of the vote to Antonio Delgado's 22%. Delgado defeated incumbent Republican Representative John Faso in the general election.

Ryan served in the United States Army as a combat intelligence officer from 2004 to 2009, including two tours in Iraq. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as the deputy director of Berico Technologies, as a subcontractor for Palantir Technologies in Afghanistan. He co-founded Praescient Analytics, a software company, in 2011. From 2015 to 2017, he was a senior vice president of Dataminr, an artificial intelligence platform. In 2018 and 2019, Ryan was a senior adviser at New Politics.

Patrick Kevin Ryan (born March 28, 1982) is an American businessman and Democratic politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York since 2022. He previously served as the county executive of Ulster County, New York.