currently lives with his wife, Linda Baldwin, an attorney and former city planning colleague, and his children, Raquel, Sara, Olivia, and Adolfo James (A.J.) on City Island. Political career Carrión ran for New York City Council in 1997. He won the election and served one four-year term representing the 14th district, which includes the West Bronx neighborhoods of University Heights, Morris Heights, Kingsbridge, and Fordham. While on the council, Carrión belonged to its committees on Economic Development, Education, Higher Education, Environmental Protection, Governmental Operations and Land Use. He also served as chairman of the Special Subcommittee on the 2000 Census. Although council members are allowed to seek reelection, Carrión did not run for a second term. He had been rumored to be a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the city council, but he chose instead to run in the hotly contested 2001 election to succeed Bronx borough president Freddy Ferrer, who was at that time prevented under the City Charter from seeking a third term in office. He edged out then-Councilmember June Eisland and State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. for the Democratic nomination and then won the general election on November 6, 2001, with a landslide 79% of the vote. He easily won reelection in 2005 with 87%. Adolfo Carrión would have been limited by the City Charter from seeking a third term as borough president until a narrow October 2008 vote of the New York City Council allowed third terms for elected city officials (including incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg). The media frequently speculated that Carrión would be a candidate for Mayor of New York City in 2009. However, on December 13, 2007, Carrión announced that he would be a candidate for New York City Comptroller in the 2009 election. On December 6, 2008, Carrión announced in a speech at Yale University that President-elect Barack Obama had selected him for a cabinet-level position. In February 2009, he took office as director of the newly created White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy. Carrión's work at the White House resulted in the establishment of a White House Urban Policy Working Group and the first interagency review in 30 years of the federal government's engagement with urban and metropolitan areas. Carrión's position at the Domestic Policy Council ended on May 3, 2010, when the Obama Administration named Carrión Regional Director for HUD's New York and New Jersey Regional Office.