Autor/-in: Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms. Before his 1990 election as Vermont's at-large member in Congress, Sanders was an organizer with the Young People’s Socialist League, as well the president of the University of Chicago's chapter of CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality).