Bernie Sanders
American politician and activist
Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as a US senator from Vermont and twice sought the Democratic presidential nomination.
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American Born 1941 in Brooklyn, United States
About Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders was born in 1941 and raised in New York City. He attended Brooklyn College and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1964. As a student, he organized protests for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement. Sanders settled in Vermont in 1968 and was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981. He later spent 16 years in the US House of Representatives before being elected to the US Senate in 2006. He is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress. He sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 and 2020, finishing second both times. His books on BookBits include It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism and Outsider in the White House.