Andrew Patrick O'Rourke (October 26, 1933 – January 3, 2013)[1][2][3] was an American judge and politician from New York State.

[2] After stepping down as county executive, O'Rourke was appointed as a judge of the New York Court of Claims.

Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, O'Rourke grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

His mother was a member of the Sioux Nation and his father was a doctor who died when O'Rourke, the youngest of five children, was just under two years old.

[1][2] O'Rourke was the author of two adventure novels: The Red Banner Mutiny (1985), about an uprising on a Soviet warship, and Hawkwood (1989), the story of a Vietnam war veteran who tries to escape his involvement with the Mafia.