Raymond Kelly
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 Raymond Kelly facts

• A lifelong New Yorker, Kelly had spent 47 years in the NYPD according to its website, serving in 25 different commands and as Police Commissioner from 1992 to 1994 and 2002 to 2013
• Kelly was the first person to rise from Police Cadet to Police Commissioner, holding all of the department's ranks, except for Three-Star Bureau Chief, Chief of Department, and Deputy Commissioner, having been promoted directly from Two-Star Chief to First Deputy Commissioner in 1990
• After his handling of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, he was mentioned for the first time as a possible candidate for FBI Director
• After Kelly turned down the position, Louis Freeh was appointed
• Kelly was a Marine Corps Reserve Colonel, Director of Police under the United Nations Mission in Haiti, and an Interpol Vice President
• During the Clinton administration, Kelly served as Treasury Department Under Secretary for Enforcement, as Customs Service Commissioner, and was in the running to become the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam, after President Bill Clinton extended full diplomatic relations to that country in 1995
• New York Senator Charles Schumer publicly recommended Kelly to become the next Director of the FBI in March 2011, and Secretary of Homeland Security in July 2013
• In March 2014, he was appointed as President of Risk Management Services at Cushman & Wakefield, a New York City-based commercial real estate services firm
• On November 10, 2015 it was reported in the New York Post that Kelly was considering a run for New York City Mayor, citing his "Love for New York City"