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Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.
Born on February 14, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the middle-class suburb of Medford, he is the son of William Henry Bloomberg, a bookkeeper at a dairy company, and Charlotte Rubens Bloomberg, an office manager.
Of Jewish heritage with family roots tracing to Eastern European immigrants, Bloomberg graduated from Medford High School, earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1964, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1966.