Anecdotes

New York City Mayor (D) (2014-present).

Son of Maria/Mary Angela (de Blasio) and Warren Wilhelm, a World War II veteran,.

Bill's father had German, French-Canadian, French, English, and distant Irish, Welsh, Belgian/Walloon, Cornish, Swiss-German, and Dutch, ancestry. Bill's mother's family was Italian, from Campania and Lucania, and Bill's mother wrote the book The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II (1988). He changed his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm in 1983, and became known Bill de Blasio in 2001.