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Senate Years of Service: 2007- Party: Independent
SANDERS, Bernard, a Representative and a Senator from Vermont; born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September 8, 1941; graduated from Madison High School, Brooklyn,
N.Y.; B.S., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1964; faculty, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass., 1989; faculty, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.,
1990; carpenter; journalist; unsuccessful independent candidate for election to
the United States Senate in 1972 and 1974; unsuccessful independent candidate
for election for governor of Vermont in 1972, 1976 and 1986; mayor of
Burlington, Vt., 1981-1989; unsuccessful independent candidate to the One
Hundred First Congress in 1988; elected as an independent to the One Hundred
Second and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1991-January 3,
2007); was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives but
was elected as an Independent to the United States Senate in 2006 for the term
ending January 3, 2013.
BibliographySanders, Bernie, with Huck Gutman.
Outsider in the House. London and New York: Verso, 1997.
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