Bernard Sanders
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United States Senator from Vermont |
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Assumed office January 3, 2007 Serving with Patrick Leahy |
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| Preceded by | Jim Jeffords |
| Chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee | |
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In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Patty Murray |
| Succeeded by | Johnny Isakson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large district |
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In office January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Plympton Smith |
| Succeeded by | Peter Welch |
| 37th Mayor of Burlington | |
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In office April 6, 1981 – April 4, 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Gordon Paquette |
| Succeeded by | Peter Clavelle |
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Bernard Sanders September 8, 1941 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Independent (1979–2015; 2016–present) |
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Liberty Union (before 1979) Democratic (2015–2016)† |
| Spouse(s) |
Deborah Shiling (m. 1964; div. 1966) Jane O'Meara (m. 1988) |
| Children | 1 son |
| Relatives | Larry Sanders (brother) |
| Education |
Brooklyn College University of Chicago (BA) |
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| Website | Senate website |
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941), better known as Bernie Sanders, is an American politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history. Since his election to the House of Representatives in 1991, he has caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to congressional committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously been chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee for two years. Since January 2017, he has been Chair of the Senate Democratic Outreach Committee. Sanders's campaign against Hillary Clinton for the party's 2016 U.S. presidential nomination raised more money in small, individual contributions than any other in American history, and helped him rise to international recognition. A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders is pro-labor and emphasizes reversing economic inequality. Many scholars consider his views to be more in line with social democracy and New Deal-era American progressivism than democratic socialism.
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