Bernie Sanders

4 days ago - His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders, a Polish-Jewish immigrant, was born in Słopnice, a town in Austrian Galicia that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in Poland. Elias Sanders immigrated to the United States in 1921 and became a paint salesman. Bernie's mother, Dorothy Sanders (née Glassberg), was born in New York City.

November 18, 2025 - In 1975, they moved to Vermont when Driscoll's employer, IBM, transferred him. The couple divorced in 1980. She has three children (Heather Titus, Carina Driscoll, and David Driscoll) from her marriage with Driscoll, who were later adopted by Sanders. O'Meara finished her college degree at ...

August 22, 2024 - Jane Sanders later served as the president of Burlington College from 2004 until her departure in 2011. Over the years, she has also worked closely with Bernie in various roles, including as an administrative assistant, spokeswoman, policy adviser, ...

May 19, 2024 - The former couple welcomed three children: two daughters, Heather and Carina, and a son, David. According to The Cut, Sanders “formally adopted” Jane's kids when her first husband died of lung cancer. Bernie and Jane also fostered 13 children.

March 31, 2025 - Photo: @berniesanders/Instagram · He may be five years older than Donald Trump, but Sanders’ energy for a fight in the political arena remains undimmed. One woman who’s seen all his ups and downs over the years is Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders.

March 7, 2016 - First wife: Deborah Messing, born Shiling, was Bernie Sanders' college sweetheart and they moved to Vermont but they divorced 18 months after marrying

March 4, 2020 - Bernie Sanders and Jane O’Meara Sanders in 1992. They soon began dating, and wed in 1988. While Jane and Bernie don’t have children together, they have a blended family and consider each other’s kids their own: Heather Titus, Carina Driscoll, and Dave Driscoll from Jane’s first marriage, and Levi Sanders from Bernie’s.

February 6, 2023 - Eli and Dorothy Sanders’ values and beliefs left a lasting impression on their sons, who decided to become public servants and, eventually, elected officials. Bernie credits Larry, president of the Young Democrats Club at Brooklyn College, with his introduction to political ideas. Larry, having moved to the UK as his wife was a British citizen, was a social worker for many years. First ...

March 10, 2020 - Jane was just one of several of Bernie’s government appointees working as a volunteer, some of whom had been initially rejected for full-time compensation by the city council, which was dominated 11-2 by a bloc of aldermen who didn’t approve of Sanders. But only Jane had the unique characteristic of being Bernie’s partner. For the first time, in her words, she “became a weapon” in a highly charged partisan environment that is hard to imagine in a small, bucolic city of 38,000 people.

Jane Sanders married Bernie Sanders in 1988. When Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, Jane Sanders began serving as a policy advisor in his congressional office. Later, she became Bernie Sanders' chief of staff. She left Bernie Sanders' office in 1996 to ...

Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont, is considered an independent non-partisan, meaning he is not affiliated with a political party. Although he lost his bid for President of the U.S. in 2016 as a Democrat, he inspired the creation of Our Revolution, a nonprofit established to keep moving forward his grassroots campaign toward progressive social change. His wife, Dr.

October 25, 2022 - Most Americans know Jane Sanders, ... not a lot of people know that Sanders was married before to a woman named Deborah Shiling, now Deborah Messing....

Bernie Sanders and Jane Driscoll are married at North Beach in Burlington and then shortly after go with a delegation of other Burlingtonians to Yaroslavl in Russia. This program includes the return at the airport as well as a press conference ...

June 24, 2019 - Jane and Bernie Sanders were long on parallel tracks. They grew up 15 blocks apart in Brooklyn and separately made their way to Vermont. Ms. Sanders, 69, moved north in 1975 after her first husband, David Driscoll, was transferred by IBM.

February 10, 2016 - Mrs. Sanders first saw her husband at a debate she helped organize. ... Jane O'Meara Sanders watches as her husband, Sen. Bernie Sanders prepares for an interview with a network news program, Jan.

July 9, 2019 - For Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, one person has been deeply involved in his political career nearly since day one: his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders. O’Meara Sanders has been with her husband for over 30 years and supported him through more than a dozen campaigns for office, while also maintaining an established career in education administration. She has been called Sanders’s “closest adviser,” due to her contributions to policy, media strategy, and fundraising, and even the Associated Press described her as “perhaps the most influential woman in the 2020 campaign who isn’t a candidate.” Curious to know more?

July 22, 2017 - Five years after Jane Sanders, wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders, left as president — after significant board turnover and three college presidents — Burlington College, and her vision, collapsed under "the crushing weight of debt."

July 9, 2015 - CNN issued its “Bernie Sanders Fast Facts,” listing his children, his three stepchildren as well as Levi. “With first wife,” it said. ... “I knew this was going to happen sooner or later,” Deborah Messing, Sanders’ first wife, said last month when she answered the phone at her home in Montpelier and I introduced myself.

June 26, 2017 - — A spokesman for the wife of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says she has hired a lawyer as federal investigators examine a real estate deal involving a Vermont college she once ran. Family spokesman Jeff Weaver managed Sanders’ 2016 Democratic presidential campaign and tells The Associated Press that Jane O’Meara Sanders has retained an attorney to look out for her interests. The news website VTDigger.com first reported federal investigators are taking a closer look at $10 million in financing she assembled for the now-defunct Burlington College.

November 8, 2023 - As Bernie climbed, the scrutiny of her became more intense. When Sanders successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2005, his opponent accused him of lining his family’s pockets with the $30,000 Jane had received from 2002 to 2004 for campaign work and the $65,000 over four years to Carina, who worked with Jane’s consulting company for a bit after graduating from the University of Montana. (House Majority Leader Tom DeLay had paid his wife and daughter $500,000 during the same time period.)