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Dianne Emiel Feinstein (née Goldman; June 22, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party , she served as mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
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Sep 29, 2023 · The longest-serving female US senator, who was the first woman to be mayor of San Francisco and blazed a trail for women in US politics, has died aged 90. We look back on her career. Fri 29 Sep...
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Feb 14, 2023 · Dianne Feinstein, who served for nine years as San Francisco mayor, signing an anti-gun bill at City Hall in San Francisco in 1982. Steve Ringman/San Francisco Chronicle, via Getty Images. By...
Sep 29, 2023 · Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images. Dianne Feinstein, whose three decades in the Senate made her the longest-serving female US senator in history, has died following months of declining health. She...
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Dianne Feinstein died on September 28 at age 90. The trailblazing U.S. senator had been the oldest member of Congress and the longest-serving female senator in American history. In recent months, she faced criticism after her declining health and memory problems raised questions about her ability to continue serving. Feinstein, who had announced in...
Dianne Feinstein was a Democratic politician from California who dedicated her life to public service, first on the local level and later on the national one. Becoming acting mayor of San Francisco when the sitting mayor was shot and killed in 1978, she ran for the job the following year and won, holding the post until 1988. Two years later, she ra...
FULL NAME: Dianne Feinstein BORN: June 22, 1933 DIED: September 28, 2023 BIRTHPLACE: San Francisco, California SPOUSE: Jack Berman (1956-1959), Bertram Feinstein (1962-1978), and Richard Blum (1980-2022) CHILD: Katherine ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Cancer
Dianne Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman in San Francisco on June 22, 1933. Born into a Jewish family, she attended a Roman Catholic school and a Jewish temple as a child and began showing an interest in politics around age 16. After graduating from San Francisco’s Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, Dianne attended Stanford University, ...
In 1960, California Governor Pat Brown appointed Feinstein to the state’s Women’s Board of Parole, making her the youngest member in the nation. She held the spot until 1966, and two years later, she became a member of the San Francisco Committee on Crime, an appointment that colored the rest of her career. In 1969, Feinstein entered her first poli...
After a failed 1990 attempt to win the California governorship, Feinstein regrouped and ran in a special election for a seat in the U.S. Senate two years later. She won and was sworn in a week later on November 10, 1992. Feinstein was reelected five times, beginning with the 1994 election. In the Senate, the moderate Democrat championed gun control...
Feinstein was married three times, most recently to investment banker Richard Blum. The couple wed in 1980 and remained together until his death from cancer in February 2022. Previously, Dianne was married to Jack Berman for three years, from 1956 to 1959. Together, they had a daughter named Katherine. A year after that marriage ended in divorce, D...
Feinstein, then 89, announced in February 2023 that she wouldn’t seek a seventh term in 2024. A month later, she was hospitalized due to shingles, which led to encephalitis and other major medical complications. Despite a three-month absence from Congress, she refused calls to step down early and ignored criticism of her declining health and memory...
Sep 29, 2023 · Photo: Eric Risberg/AP. Feinstein was the first woman to serve in many of the roles she filled. In 1978, after the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey...
Sep 29, 2023 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. American politician Dianne Feinstein, the first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco,...
