Elizabeth Helen McCaughey, formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, is an American politician who was the lieutenant governor of New York from 1995 to 1998 under Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket, and she ended up on the ballot under the Liberal Party line. In August 2016, Donald Trump's presidential campaign announced that she had joined the campaign as an economic adviser. She was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Connecticut in 2026.
- Occupation
- historian, politician, history
- Position held
- Lieutenant Governor of New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 20, 1948
