PERSON: Bernie Sanders

Senator

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and the junior United States senator from Vermont. Before serving in the Senate, he represented Vermont’s at-large district in the United States House of Representatives and served as mayor of Burlington, the largest city in Vermont. Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist, and has praised European social democracy; he is the first person elected to Congress to identify as a socialist in six decades.

Sanders caucuses with the Democratic Party and is counted as a Democrat for the purposes of committee assignments, but because he does not belong to a formal political party, he appears as an independent on the ballot. He was also the only independent member of the House during most of his service and is the longest-serving independent in U.S. Congressional history.

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