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Jul 9, 2019 · Jane O’Meara Sanders and Bernie Sanders both grew up in Brooklyn. O’Meara Sanders was born Mary Jane O’Meara (yes, her family still calls her Mary) in Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1951, about 15 blocks away from her future husband, though they never crossed paths.
Mar 10, 2020 · Jane’s own sense of injustice had been nurtured by family hardship. When she was still Mary Jane O’Meara, a kid growing up in Brooklyn, she watched her father, Benedict, struggle with expensive hospital stays brought on by an accident when Jane was 2 years old.
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Jane O'Meara Sanders was born as Mary Jane O'Meara on January 3, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA, to Bernadette Joan and Benedict P. O'Meara. She studied at the Saint Saviour High School and later enrolled at the University of Tennessee.
Mar 4, 2020 · In Bernie Sanders's long career in national politics, he's always had one steadfast proponent: his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders. And she's been a constant presence during his 2020 presidential campaign.
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Sanders's wife was born Mary Jane O'Meara on January 3, 1950, and grew up in Brooklyn, as one of the five children of Bernadette Joan (Sheridan) and Benedict P. O'Meara. Her nationality...
Jane O’Meara Sanders is an entrepreneur in the public realm, a community activist, youth advocate, wife, mother and grandmother. She has been a political advisor and strategist throughout the years to her husband, Vermont Senator and U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Mary Jane O'Meara Sanders is an American social worker, college administrator, activist, and political strategist. Sanders was provost and interim president of Goddard College (1996–1997) and president of Burlington College (2004–2011). In June 2017, she founded the think tank The Sanders Institute.
