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From 1981 to 1991, Sanders served as founding Director of the Mayor's Youth Office and Department Head in the City of Burlington. She was also active in K-12 education, elected as a School Board Commissioner, and was a founding member of the Women's Council & the Film Commission. In 1991, her husband, Bernie Sanders, was elected to the U.S ...
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont.Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential ...
Bernie Sanders, who ran as an independent candidate, defeated incumbent Democratic Mayor Gordon Paquette, who was seeking a sixth term as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and Richard Bove. Paquette had easily won reelection to the mayoralty in the 1973 , 1975 , and 1979 elections and the Democratic Party controlled ten of the thirteen city council ...
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Incumbent independent Senator Bernie Sanders won reelection to a second term in a landslide, defeating Republican nominee John MacGovern with 71% of the vote. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, was first elected with 65% of the vote in 2006 and was the first non-Republican to win this seat since 1850.
The electoral history of Bernie Sanders includes the 2016 and 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses, and elections as United States Senator from Vermont, United States Representative from Vermont's at-large district (1991–2007), and Mayor of Burlington (1981–1989).
Bernie Sanders was inaugurated as the 37th Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, on April 6, 1981, after defeating incumbent Democratic Mayor Gordon Paquette. [3] [4] Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy, who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, during the 1940s and 1950s. [5]
Carina Nicole Driscoll was born to Jane Sanders and David Martin Driscoll. [2] [3] She graduated from Burlington School District, where she was an honors student, in 1992. [4] [5] She graduated from the University of Vermont. Driscoll married Blake Anders Ewoldsen, with whom she had two children, on April 19, 2003.