Congressman John W. Mannion represents New York’s 22nd Congressional District, which includes Syracuse, Utica, Oneida, Auburn, and Cortland, as well as communities across Central New York and the Mohawk Valley.

A lifelong Central New Yorker, Mannion spent nearly three decades teaching high school science, including Advanced Placement Biology and Chemistry. He also served for eight years as president of the West Genesee Teachers’ Association and is a graduate of Binghamton University and SUNY Oswego.

Before joining Congress, Mannion served in the New York State Senate, where he was the founding Chairman of the Senate Committee on Disabilities. He worked to expand employment opportunities and support services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and addressed workforce and housing shortages affecting the disability community.

Congressman Mannion is a lifelong Central New Yorker and the grandchild of Irish immigrants. His mother worked at New York Telephone and his father for New York Central Railroad, raising John on Syracuse's famous Tipperary Hill. He now resides in Geddes with his wife of twenty-seven years, Jennifer. She has worked for over twenty-five years as an elementary teacher and reading interventionist, while raising their three children.