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Bernie Sanders

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Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He 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 nomination in 2016 and 2020. Sanders has been viewed as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement. Born into a working-class Jewish family and raised in New York, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernie Sanders is the 1,155th most popular politician (down from 140th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from United States (down from 49th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Politician.

Bernie Sanders is most famous for being a democratic socialist, running for president of the United States in 2016, and being a senator from Vermont.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernie Sanders ranks 1,155 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick V of Denmark, Yun Posun, Modu Chanyu, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Şehzade Cihangir, and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès. After him are Petro Poroshenko, Yeongjo of Joseon, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Abul Kalam Azad, Ptolemy VI Philometor, and Matilda of Boulogne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Bernie Sanders ranks 17. Before him are Cesária Évora, Riccardo Muti, Lee Myung-bak, Fethullah Gülen, Robert Forster, and Richard Dawkins. After him are Krzysztof Kieślowski, Bruno Ganz, George Smith, Vivienne Westwood, Martha Argerich, and Harry Nilsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernie Sanders ranks 364 out of 20,380. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Susan Sarandon (1946), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Rita Hayworth (1918), and Irvin D. Yalom (1931). After him are Margaret Hamilton (1936), Ed White (1930), Willis Lamb (1913), Robert E. Lee (1807), Jimmy Wales (1966), and Jesse Owens (1913).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Bernie Sanders ranks 58. Before him are Edith Roosevelt (1861), Andrew Johnson (1808), Henry Clay (1777), Zachary Taylor (1784), Allen Dulles (1893), and James A. Garfield (1831). After him are William Howard Taft (1857), Warren G. Harding (1865), Franklin Pierce (1804), Sarah Palin (1964), William Henry Harrison (1773), and Robert F. Kennedy (1925).

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