Who is Bernie Sanders?

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is a Jewish American politician and the current junior Senator from Vermont. He is married to Jane O’Meara Sanders; they have four children. Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants. Sanders graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1964 and afterward spent time working on a kibbutz in Israel. Later that year he moved to Vermont where he worked as a writer, documentary producer, and researcher. Sanders’ political career began in 1971 when he joined the anti-Vietnam War Liberty Union Party in Vermont. From 1981 to 1989, Sanders served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont’s largest city. His accomplishments as mayor included building affordable housing, revitalizing the city’s waterfront and downtown, initiating arts, youth and women’s programs and increasing voter turnout by more than 50 percent. Burlington was recognized as one of the three most livable cities in America, and Sanders was chosen as one of the 20 best Mayors in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic Primary to his opponent, Hillary Clinton, who went on to lose the general election to Republican challenger Donald Trump. When the Electoral College convened on December 19, 2016, a faithless elector from Hawaii cast her vote for Senator Sanders instead of the winner of the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton. With this, Sanders became the first Jewish individual to ever receive an Electoral College vote for President of the United States.

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