Andrew Patrick O'Rourke

Andrew Patrick O'Rourke (October 26, 1933 – January 3, 2013) was an American judge and politician from New York State. A Republican, he served as the County Executive of Westchester County, New York from 1982 to 1997.

He was the Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1986. During the course of the campaign, he carried a prop—a cardboard cutout of then-incumbent Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo, which he used to humorous effect. Nevertheless, Cuomo was re-elected. Thereafter he was elected as a justice of the New York State Supreme Court He graduated from Fordham University and Fordham University School of Law, He died at the age of 79 at Calvary Hospital in The Bronx due to complications of cancer.