# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-j-lhota
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:34:25.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-j-lhota"
name: "Joseph J. Lhota"
slug: "joseph-j-lhota"
description: "Joseph J. Lhota is an American public servant and politician who served as the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and served as New York City deputy mayor for operations from 1998 to 2001. He was the Republican nominee in an unsuccessful bid for the 2013 election for Mayor of New York City. In January 2014, he became senior vice president, vice dean, and chief of staff at NYU Langone Medical Center. In 2017, he returned to the chairmanship of the MTA, but would not run the authority day-to-day. He resigned from that position in 2018."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JoeLhotaPortrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.43
  momentum:             0.857959961868446
  historical:           7.241004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joelhotaformayor.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lhota"
    title: "Joe Lhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "چوزيف جيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lhota"
    title: "Joe Lhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lhota"
    title: "Joe Lhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lhota"
    title: "Joe Lhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Lhota"
    title: "Joseph J. Lhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lhota"
    title: "Joe Lhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lhota"
    title: "Joseph Lhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump