Meet Nancy Pelosi, The Fourth-time Speaker of The US House of Representatives

Nancy Pelosi, US House Speaker, has been witnessing a surge in her popularity after her re-election as the speaker for the US House of Representatives. She was marginally re-elected with 216 votes. After the election, she made a formidable promise of crushing the coronavirus. The newly-elected speaker faces a tough challenge for the next two years as her term stands in the midst of a pandemic. In her previous term as the speaker, she helped in a $2 trillion relief package in March 2020— a time when the US' coronavirus death toll kept rising. She went on to dub the coronavirus as 'Trump virus' and blamed President Trump for mishandling the pandemic.

Here are a few facts you ought to know about the Speaker from the Democratic party.

1. Nancy Pelosi was born on March 26, 1940. She was one of the six children and only daughter of Tommy D'Alesandro and Annunciata M. "Nancy" D'Alesandro. Her father was the 39th mayor of Baltimore.

2. She showcased a sharp interest in politics as a child. Pelosi attended her first Democratic National Convention when she was just 12. She was always inclined towards the Democrats in her early days too.

3. Pelosi married a banker named Paul Pelosi, the man whom she met at Georgetown University. She ran a Democratic Party club while being a mother of five children.

4. Nancy Pelosi earliest political stints involved working for the presidential campaign of California Gov. Jerry Brown in 1976. She represented California as the Democratic Party head and worked by recruiting people and raising funds for campaigns.

5. She successfully raised  $1 million in just seven weeks and recruited 4,000 volunteers while standing up for the seat of a dying Congresswoman. In June 1978, at the age of 47, she defeated a San Francisco supervisor in an election. She was sworn-in beside her father into the house of San Francisco.

6. She swiftly rose within her party and was also secretary of Defense and director of the CIA.

7. While she was an elected member of the San Francisco house, she vocally supported the rights of the LGBTQ+ community and the AIDS crisis.

8. In 2002, she went on to become the first female to lead a party. Her leadership was pivotal in raising a massive $1.8 million for the Democrats.

9. It was in 2006 that she became the first female speaker of the US House of Representatives till 2011 and once again in 2019. When she was elected as the speaker for the first time, she eliminated many tax subsidies to oil companies, increased minimum wage and drew up a 9/11 commission report.

10. She supported Barack Obama in implementing health policies in 2009.

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