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Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born 8 September 1941) is an American politeecian. He is a United States Senator frae Vermont. Afore servin in the Senate, he representit Vermont's at-lairge congressional destrict in the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives an servit as mayor o Burlington, Vermont.
Bernie Sanders | |
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Official Senate portrait of Sanders, 2007 | |
Unitit States Senator frae Vermont | |
Assumed office 3 Januar 2007 Servin with Patrick Leahy | |
Precedit bi | Jim Jeffords |
Chairman o the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs | |
In office 3 Januar 2013 – 3 Januar 2015 | |
Precedit bi | Patty Murray |
Succeedit bi | Johnny Isakson |
Member o the U.S. Hoose o Representatives frae Vermont's at-lairge destrict | |
In office 3 Januar 1991 – 3 Januar 2007 | |
Precedit bi | Peter Plympton Smith |
Succeedit bi | Peter Welch |
37t Mayor o Burlington | |
In office 6 Apryle 1981 – 4 Apryle 1989 | |
Precedit bi | Gordon Paquette |
Succeedit bi | Peter Clavelle |
Personal details | |
Born | Bernard Sanders 8 September 1941 Brooklyn, New York Ceety, U.S. |
Poleetical pairty | Liberty Union (Afore 1979) Independent (1979–2015) Democratic (2015–present)† |
Spoose(s) | Deborah Shiling (1964–1966) Jane O’Meara (1988–present) |
Domestic partner | Susan Mott (1969)[1] |
Bairns | 1; 3 step-bairns |
Residence | Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
Alma mater | Brooklyn College (1959–60) Varsity o Chicago (1960–64) |
Signatur | |
Wabsteid | Senate wabsteid Campaign wabsteid |
Syne his election tae the Senate, Sanders haes emergit as a leadin progressive vyce on issues lik income inequality,[2] climate chynge,[3] an campaign finance reform.[4] He rose tae naitional prominence on the heels o his 2010 filibuster[5][6] o the proposit extension o the Bush-era tax rates for the walthie. Sanders is an aa ootspoken on ceevil liberties issues, an haes been parteecularly creetical o mass surveillance policies syne the Patriot Act.[7][8]
On Apryle 30, 2015, Sanders annooncit his candidacy in the 2016 Unitit States presidential election in an address on the Capitol lawn.[9][10][11]
Sanders wis born in Brooklyn, New York tae Eli Sanders an Dorothy Glassberg.[12][13] His parents war Polish-Jewish immigrants wha moweit tae New York durin the early years o Warld War II.[14]
Sanders studit at Brooklyn College an at the Varsity o Chicago. He wis ane o thowsands o students wha travelit bi bus tae Washington, D.C., tae tak pairt in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.[15]
Efter severel unsuccessfil runs for office, Sanders wis electit mayor o Burlington, Vermont's lairgest ceety, in 1981. He wis reelectit tae three mair twa-year mayoral terms afore bein elected tae represent Vermont's at-lairge congressional destrict in the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives in 1990. He servit as a congressman for 16 years.
Sanders wis elected tae succeid the retirin Republican-turnit-independent Jim Jeffords in the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2012 he wis reelectit bi a landslide. Sanders wis the anly independent member o the Hoose durin maist o his service an is the langest-servin independent in U.S. congressional history.[16]
Syne his election tae the Senate, Sanders haes emergit as a leadin progressive vyce on issues lik income inequality,[2] climate chynge,[3] an campaign finance reform.[17] He rose tae naitional prominence on the heels o his 2010 filibuster[6][18] o the proposit extension o the Bush-era tax rates for the walthie.
Sanders is an aa ootspoken on ceevil liberties issues, an haes been parteecularly creetical o mass surveillance policies syne the Patriot Act.[7][8]
Sanders is the langest servin independent member o Congress in American history.[19]
In an interview wi The Nation on Mairch 6, 2014, Sanders statit that he wis "preparit to run for Preses o the Unitit States" in 2016[20] but did nae offeecially annoonce a campaign.
On Apryle 28, 2015, Vermont Public Radio reportit that Sanders wad annoonce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Apryle 30.[21][22] The offeecial annooncement came on Mey 26 in Burlington, Vermont.
Sanders haes been mairit tae Jane O'Meara Driscoll. Thay hae fower childer.
Sanders self-identifies as Jewish culturally but states that he is nae religious. He admires Pape Francis an says he feels “very close tae the teachins o Pope Francis,” wha he descryves as “incredibly smart an brave."[23]
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