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WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Jack Quinn, R-N.Y., who was first elected to Congress in 1992, says he will retire at the end of the year rather than seek re-election.
Elected in 1992 to an open seat that had been for years held by a Democrat, Quinn is a liberal Republican with strong ties to organized labor -- ties that produced the crossover votes he needed to keep the seat in the GOP column prior to the post-2000 congressional redistricting.
After the 2000 Census, New York's 27th Congressional District was reconfigured to run from parts of Buffalo, N.Y., south to the New York-Pennsylvania boarder along the coastline of Lake Erie and was, in the process, made more Republican.
Quinn won re-election in 2002 with 69 percent of the vote, his largest margin ever. Former Vice President Al Gore carried the seat in the 2000 presidential contest, winning 53 percent of the vote against 41 percent to George W. Bush.
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