Bernard Sanders wiki, Biography, bio, wealth, Signature, Education, Family

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Bernard Sanders wiki, Biography, bio, wealth, awards and honors, Signature, Education, Family:- Bernard Sanders is an American politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007 and has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2019, and previously from 2015 to 2016. The U.S. Representative for the state’s at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007, Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. e ran unsuccessfully for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president and is running again in 2020. Enter or paste your text here. To download and save it, click on the button below.

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Who is Bernard Sanders

Bernard Sanders is an American politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007 and has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2019, and previously from 2015 to 2016.

Bernard Sanders Early life Wiki Bio

Bernard Sanders was born on September 8, 1941, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders (1904–1962), as born in Słopnice, Galicia, in Austria-Hungary (now part of Poland),to a Jewish family. In 1921, Elias immigrated to the United States, where he became a paint salesman. Bernard’s mother, Dorothy Sanders, was born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland and Russia. Bernard Sanders wiki

Bernard Sanders Education

Sanders attended Brooklyn’s James Madison High School and then went on to Brooklyn College. After a year there, he transferred to the University of Chicago. Sanders became involved in the Civil Rights Movement during his university days. As a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Sanders participated in a sit-in against the segregation of off-campus housing in 1962. He also served as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963 he participated in the March on Washington.

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After finishing college in 1964 with a degree in political science, Sanders lived on a kibbutz in Israel before settling in Vermont. He worked a number of jobs, including filmmaker, freelance writer, psychiatric aide and teacher for low-income children through Head Start, while his interest in politics grew.

Bernard Sanders Family

Bernard Sanders was born in new york city. his father’s name was Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders and his mother’s name is Dorothy Sanders. his first wife’s name is Deborah Shiling after 2 years he divorced. and then he married Jane O’Meara in 1988. he has one child Levi Sanders

Spouse(s)	Deborah Shilling (m. 1964; div. 1966)Jane O’Meara (m. 1988)
Children	Levi Sanders
Relatives	Larry Sanders (brother)

Bernard Sanders Political party

Political party	Democratic (2015–2016; 2019–present) Independent (congressional affiliation, until 1969; 1978–present)

Bernard Sanders Personal life

In 1963, Sanders and Deborah Shiling Messing, whom he met in college, volunteered for several months on the Israeli kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim. They married in 1964 and bought a summer home in Vermont; they had no children and divorced in 1966. His son (and only biological child), Levi Sanders, was born in 1969 to girlfriend Susan Campbell Mott. In 1988, Sanders married Jane O’Meara Driscoll, who later became president of Burlington College, in Burlington, Vermont. The day after their wedding, the couple visited the Soviet Union as part of an official delegation in his capacity as mayor. He considers Jane’s three children—Dave Driscoll (born 1975), Carina Driscoll (born 1974), and Heather Titus (née Driscoll; 1971)—to be his own. He also has seven grandchildren, three (including one who was adopted) through his son Levi and four through his stepchildren.

Bernard Honors and awards

On December 4, 2015, Sanders won Time‘s 2015 Person of the Year readers’ poll with 10.2% of the vote but did not receive the editorial board’s award. On March 20, 2016, he was given an honorary Coast Salish name, dxʷshudičup, by Deborah Parker in Seattle to honor his focus on Native American issues during his presidential campaign. Bernard Sanders wiki

On May 30, 2017, Sanders received an Honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Brooklyn College.

Bernard Sanders Religion

Bernard Sanders was very pleased to be Jews

Bernard Sanders Networth Wealth

Sanders’s net worth is estimated at $2 million. In 2016 and 2017, he reported earnings of just over $1 million, mostly royalties and advances on the books he had published those years. He and his wife own a row house in Capitol Hill, a house in Burlington’s New North End neighborhood, and a lakefront summer home in North Hero.

Bernard Sanders Website

Website	Senate website