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Everything in Paxon's history suggested that he would be a career politician. The son of a judge and a party activist, he was born and raised to take pride in his Republican heritage and his upstate New York State roots. Straight out of Canisius College in Buffalo in 1977, Paxon was elected to the Erie Country State Legislature at the tender age of 23. He quickly rose through the ranks of state politics, and in 1988 he won the seat of Jack Kemp, who ran unsuccessfully for President that year...
Nevertheless, Paxon's retirement from Congress was a disappointment for the news media in Rochester and Buffalo, the two largest cities in Paxon's district. Major newspapers in both markets bemoaned the loss of potential exposure and economic benefit the region could have enjoyed if Paxon were eventually able to assume the House speakership...