Westchester County Executive is the head of the executive branch

Executive (government)

Executive branch of Government is the part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the idea of the separation of powers.In many countries, the term...

 of the Westchester County

Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...

 government

Government

Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

. The county executive has power to veto

Veto

A veto, Latin for "I forbid", is the power of an officer of the state to unilaterally stop an official action, especially enactment of a piece of legislation...

 acts of Westchester County Board of Legislators

Westchester County Board of Legislators

The Westchester County Board of Legislators is the legislative, policy-making branch of Westchester County. The powers of the Board are enumerated in the County’s charter. A key power of the Board concerns finances: appropriating funds, approving the budget and levying taxes...

History

The office of Westchester County Executive was created in 1937 when voters approved a new county charter

Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified...

 giving the county an executive branch to complement the legislative County Board of Supervisors (later the County Board of Legislators).

History of County Executives

Term	Name
1939 - 1941	William Francis Bleakley (Rep)
1941 - 1953	Herbert Clinton Gerlach (Rep)
1954 - 1957	James Daniel Hopkins (Rep)
1958 - 1973	Edwin Gilbert Michaelian (Rep)
1974 - 1982	Alfred Benedict Del Bello (Dem)
1983 - 1997	Andrew Patrick O'Rourke Andrew O'Rourke Andrew P. O'Rourke is a judge and politician from New York State. A Republican, he served as the County Executive of Westchester County, New York from 1983 to 1998....  (Rep)
1998 - 2010	Andrew J. Spano (Dem)
2010 -	Rob Astorino Rob Astorino Rob Astorino is the Westchester County Executive and an American media personality and politician who is a radio host and program director for the Catholic Channel on SIRIUS Satelitte Radio. He was one of the founders of 1050 AM ESPN Radio in New York City, and worked as the station's Executive... (Rep)