Bernie Sanders
Senator · U.S. Senate · Vermont
Independent
Biography
Bernie Sanders was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1964. Sanders worked as a carpenter and a journalist. He previously served as mayor of Burlington as an independent from 1981 to 1989, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007.
On the record
- Education
- High school: James Madison High School, Brooklyn, NY; Bachelor's: University of Chicago
- Born
- 1941
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York
Contact
- Capitol office
- 332 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 · (202) 224-5141
- Phone
- (202) 224-5141
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