Elizabeth Warren trivia: 60 facts about the American politician

Elizabeth Warren is an American politician and former academic. She is serving as the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her.

1. Her full name is Elizabeth Ann Warren
2. Her birth name is Herring
3. She was born on June 22, 1949
4. She is an American politician and former academic
5. She is serving as the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013
6. She was formerly a law school professor specializing in bankruptcy law
7. She is a member of the Democratic Party and a progressive
8. Warren has focused on consumer protection, economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate
9. Warren is also a Democratic candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election
10. Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School
11. She has taught law at several universities
12. These universities include the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University
13. She was one of the most influential professors of bankruptcy law before beginning her political career
14. She has authored five and coauthored six books
15. She has written dozens of articles
16. Warren’s first foray into public policy began in 1995
17. Then she worked to oppose what eventually became a 2005 act restricting bankruptcy access for individuals
18. Her national profile grew during the late 2000s
19. Following her forceful public stances in favor of more stringent banking regulations after the 2007-08 financial crisis
20. She served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program
21. She proposed and established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
22. For which she served as the first Special Advisor under President Obama
23. In November 2012, Warren won the U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts
24. Defeating incumbent Republican Scott Brown
25. Thus becoming the first female Senator from Massachusetts
26. She was assigned to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
27. Warren won reelection by a wide margin in 2018
28. Defeating Republican nominee Geoff Diehl
29. On February 9, 2019, at a rally in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Warren announced her candidacy in the 2020 United States presidential election
30. Warren was born Elizabeth Ann Herring in Oklahoma City on June 22, 1949
31. She is the fourth child of Pauline Louise, a homemaker, and Donald Jones Herring, a U.S. Army flight instructor during World War II
32. She and her three older brothers
33. They were raised Methodist
34. Warren lived in Norman, Oklahoma, until she was 11 years old
35. Then her family moved back to Oklahoma City
36. When she was 12, her father, then a salesman at Montgomery Ward, had a heart attack
37. This led to many medical bills as well as a pay cut because he could not do his previous work
38. After leaving his sales job, he worked as a maintenance man for an apartment building
39. Eventually, the family’s car was repossessed because they failed to make loan payments
40. To help the family finances, her mother found work in the catalog-order department at Sears
41. When she was 13, Warren started waiting tables at her aunt’s restaurant
42. Warren became a star member of the debate team at Northwest Classen High School
43. She won the state high school debating championship
44. She also won a debate scholarship to George Washington University (GWU) at the age of 16
45. She initially aspired to be a teacher, but left GWU after two years in 1968 to marry James Robert ”Jim” Warren
46. They had met in high school
47. Warren and her husband moved to Houston, where he was employed by IBM
48. She enrolled in the University of Houston
49. She graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech pathology and audiology
50. The Warrens moved to New Jersey when Jim received a job transfer
51. She soon became pregnant
52. She decided to stay at home to care for their daughter, Amelia
53. After Amelia turned two, Warren enrolled in Rutgers Law School at Rutgers University–Newark
54. She received her J.D. in 1976
55. She passed the bar examination shortly thereafter
56. Shortly before graduating, Warren became pregnant with their second child, Alexander
57. The Warrens divorced in 1978
58. Two years later, Warren married law professor Bruce H. Mann on July 12, 1980
59. But she kept her first husband’s surname
60. Warren has three grandchildren through her daughter Amelia