Nancy Pelosi

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Nancy Pelosi is a member of the United States House of Representatives and the Speaker of the House for the 110th Congress. She represents the 8th district of California, which is part of the city of San Francisco. She was first elected in 1987. Pelosi is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the first woman to lead a major party in the United States Congress and is the first woman to be the Speaker of the House.

Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Junior, was Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland and served five terms in Congress. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also was Mayor of Baltimore.

Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. in 1962. She and her husband, Paul Pelosi, who is from San Francisco, have five children: Nancy Corinne, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and Alexandra, and five grandchildren.

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