Personal Life
Sanders is married to Jane O'Meara, a former president of Burlington College, and has one son, Levi Sanders, from a previous marriage. His brother, Larry Sanders, is a Green Party County Councillor representing the East Oxford division on Oxfordshire County Council, in England.
Sanders is one of two sitting U.S. Senators who went to James Madison High School in Brooklyn, the other being Chuck Schumer. Before Sanders became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, his roommate was Richard I. Sugarman, a professor at the University of Vermont. Coincidentally, Senator Joseph Lieberman, for much of the time the only other Independent serving in the Senate, shared a suite with Professor Sugarman when the two attended Yale University in the 1960s.
For the Friday segment "Brunch with Bernie" of the Thom Hartmann radio program, Hartmann interviews Sanders and the Senator answers listeners' calls.
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