Editing Tim Bishop (section)

==Early life, education and career==
Bishop is a twelfth-generation resident of [[Southampton (town), New York|Southampton, New York]],{{cn|date=March 2025}} where he was born on June 1, 1950.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/b001242|title=BISHOP, Timothy H.|website=bioguide.congress.gov|access-date=March 30, 2025}}</ref> He is the son of Catherine (Roesel) and Howard Cortland Bishop. He is the great-grandson of Benjamin H. Bishop, a mayor of Southampton, and has English, Irish, and German ancestry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/bishoptim.htm|title=tim bishop|website=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com|access-date=November 23, 2018}}</ref> He received a bachelor's degree from the [[College of the Holy Cross]] in 1972 and a master's degree from [[Long Island University]] in 1981.<ref name="auto"/> 

Bishop began working at [[Southampton College]] in 1973 as an admissions counselor. He served as [[provost (education)|provost]] at the college for 16 years.<ref name="wsj">{{cite web|title=Tim Bishop|url=http://projects.wsj.com/campaign2012/candidates/view/tim-bishop--NY-H|publisher=Wall Street Journal|access-date=August 5, 2014}}</ref> He also served as the college's director of financial aid, assistant director of admissions, registrar, director of institutional research and planning, dean for enrollment services, and dean for administrative and student services.{{cn|date=March 2025}} During his tenure, Southampton College of Long Island University produced 36 Fulbright Scholars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.southampton.liu.edu/news/pressrel/pr96/fulbri3.htm|title=Southampton College Press Release|date=July 2, 1996|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308062553/http://www2.southampton.liu.edu/news/pressrel/pr96/fulbri3.htm|archive-date=March 8, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Along with the Southampton College Chancellor, [[Robert F. X. Sillerman]], Bishop developed the most successful single fund-raising event in the college's history, the All for the Sea rock concerts which grossed as much as $1 million annually.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Cool Million on a Hot Night|url=http://easthamptonstar.com/Archive/1/Cool-Million-Hot-Night|publisher=The East Hampton Star|date=July 23, 1998|access-date=June 10, 2015|archive-date=June 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610085936/http://easthamptonstar.com/Archive/1/Cool-Million-Hot-Night|url-status=dead}}</ref>