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Biography
Nancy Pelosi served as the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. She made history again in January when she regained her position second-in-line to the presidency – the first person to do so in more than six decades.
Pelosi is the chief architect of generation-defining legislation under two Democratic administrations, including the Affordable Care Act and the American Rescue Plan. She led House Democrats for 20 years and previously served as House Democratic Whip. In , she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement. In , she was awarded by President Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for 37 years. Currently serving as Speaker Emerita of
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Joe Biden
–present
Who Is Joe Biden?
Joe Biden is a longtime Democratic politician who served as the 46th president of the United States, from to His journey to the nation’s highest office began with his first election in Biden, who briefly worked as an attorney, then became the sixth youngest U.S. senator in history as well as Delaware’s longest-serving senator. Beginning in , Biden served two terms as the 47th vice president of the United States as part of President Barack Obama’s administration. Biden’s third presidential campaign led to his election in Faced with increasing public scrutiny during his reelection effort four years later, Biden withdrew his bid and completed his single-term presidency.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
BORN: November 20,
BIRTHPLACE: Scranton, Pennsylvania
SPOUSES: Neilia Hunter Biden (–) and Jill Biden (–present)
CHILDREN: Beau, Hunter, Naomi “Amy,” and Ashley
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio
Early Life
Long before
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Jefferson recognized that the principles he included in the Declaration had not been fully realized and would remain a challenge across time, but his poetic vision continues to have a profound influence in the United States and around the world. Abraham Lincoln made just this point when he declared:
All honor to Jefferson – to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that to-day and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.7
After Jefferson left Congress in , he returned to Virginia and served in the legislature. In late , as a member of the new House of Delegates of Virginia, he worked closely with James Madison. Their first collaboration, to end the religious establishment in Virginia, became a legisla