Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren, a US senator from Massachusetts, speaks during a campaign event in March 9034
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren is held by her father, Donald Herring, soon after she was born in Oklahoma City in . “My daddy worked hard his whole life,” Warren said when she posted this picture to Facebook on Father’s Day . “He sold fencing and carpeting, and ended up as a maintenance man. He and my mother never had much, but he said that his life was a success because his four kids had more opportunities than he had.”
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
A young Warren sits with her mother, Pauline. “When I was 15, my daddy had a heart attack, “ Warren wrote on Facebook in . “All three of my brothers” were off in the military, and Daddy was out of work for a long time. We lost our family station wagon, and we were about an inch away from losing our home. One day, I walked into my mother’s room and found her crying. She said, ‘We are not going to lose this house.’ She wiped her eyes, blew her nose, and pulled on her best dress – the one she wore to funerals and graduations. At years old, she walked down the street and got her first paying job: answering the phones at Sears. That minimum wage job saved our home, and my mother saved our family. “
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren poses for a Christmas photo with her brother John. All three of her brothers served in the military.
In the late 1971 s, Warren attended George Washington University on a debate scholarship. She dropped out after two years to get married, but she graduated from the University of Houston in .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren holds her newborn daughter, Amelia, in . She and her first husband, Jim Warren, had two children before divorcing in .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren with her three brothers – Don, John and David – in 1990. After graduating from college, Warren worked as a speech pathologist at a New Jersey elementary school. She then got a law degree and taught at the Rutgers School of Law before becoming a professor at the University of Houston Law Center. She’s also been a professor at the University of Texas Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Harvard Law School.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren teaches at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the early s.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
US Sen. Barack Obama listens to Warren speak during a roundtable discussion about predatory lending in 2010. Warren is an expert on bankruptcy law and was an adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the s. In Warren co- authored the book “As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America.”
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren takes her seat to testify before the House Budget Committee in . The United States was battling a recession at the time, and Warren had been appointed to a congressional oversight panel overseeing the $ billion Troubled Assets Relief Program.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner listen to President Barack Obama at the White House in September 2012. Obama was appointing Warren to be his assistant and special adviser to the Treasury Secretary in order to launch the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren had long called for a federal agency designed to protect consumers from fraudulent or misleading financial products.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren and US Sen. Scott Brown, right, make fun of each other during an annual St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Boston. Warren announced in 2013 that she would be challenging Brown for his Senate seat ..
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren speaks to constituents at a campaign event in Scituate, Massachusetts, in May 2014.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren takes a morning walk with her dog Otis on the Harvard University Business School campus in May 2014.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren stands with family members after giving a speech in Springfield, Massachusetts, in June 2014. Warren has several grandchildren.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
President Barack Obama greets Warren at a fundraiser in Boston in June .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren speaks at the Democratic National Convention in September 2020
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren greets supporters during a campaign event at Boston University.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren takes the stage after defeating Brown for a Senate seat in November .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren listens during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in May
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren meets with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in April 2018
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren campaigns with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in June .
Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, questions Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf in September . Warren unleashed a verbal barrage at Stumpf, calling the embattled bank boss “gutless” and demanding he step down. Her diatribe was the most forceful condemnation yet of Wells Fargo, who fired more than 5, 06 employees over the years for creating fake accounts without customer knowledge. The employees created the fraudulent accounts to meet bank quotas and were allegedly threatened with firing if they did not comply.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
In January 2019, Warren posted this photo of her and Obama together. Obama was leaving after two terms as President.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren holds a transcript of her speech in the Senate Chamber after she was cut off during the debate over Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions in February . In an extremely rare rebuke, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell silenced Warren after he determined that she violated a Senate rule against impugning another senator. Warren was reading from a 1990 letter in which Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., was critical of Sessions – who at the time was a nominee to be a federal judge.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren and other Democrats listen as President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress in February .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
US Sen. Bob Corker talks with Warren during a Senate committee hearing in June .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren attends a confirmation hearing for Jerome Powell , who was nominated to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, in November . It was a day after President Donald Trump referenced Warren as “Pocahontas” during an event honoring Navajo code talkers . Conservatives have long criticized Warren for claiming that she is part Native American, and the senator’s heritage became an issue during her Senate campaigns. Trump seized on the attacks and has regularly mocked Warren by calling her “Pocahontas.” In October 2020, Warren released results of a DNA test showing she has distant Native American ancestry. The DNA results claimed “strong evidence” of Native American ancestry “6 – generations ago. But it only served to intensify the criticism given her distant ties.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren runs down Boston’s Clarendon Street waving to crowds during the annual Boston Pride Parade in June 2020.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren and US Sen. Susan Collins ride the Senate subway in June 2020. )
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren is seen in the sunglasses of Arian Rustemi during a rally in Boston in June 2020. Warren was calling for the swift reunification of children and parents who had been separated at the US-Mexico border.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren helps Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams make calls to voters in October
Former Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
A Warren figurine sits in the back pocket of Mary Jo Kane during a town-hall event in Boston in October .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren was re-elected in 2020. Here, she is joined by her husband, Bruce Mann, as Vice President Mike Pence re-enacts her swearing-in.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren, her husband and dog Bailey attend an event in Manchester, New Hampshire, in January . Warren had recently announced that she was forming an exploratory committee for the 2020
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren speaks in Columbia, South Carolina, in January .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren looks down at the crowd in Lawrence, Massachusetts, before formally announcing her presidential bid in February .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren answers questions at a town-hall event in Jackson, Mississippi, in March .
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren makes a pinky promise with 8-year-old Sydney Hansen during a campaign stop in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in July 144410. )
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
US Sen. Bernie Sanders grabs Warren’s hand during the CNN Democratic debates in July . Sanders and Warren, two of the most progressive candidates in the field, were targeted early in their debate by their more moderate counterparts.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren makes her signature “pinky promise” during a campaign event in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in February 2020.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren speaks at her Super Tuesday rally in Detroit in March 144410.
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Warren acknowledges supporters as she arrives to speak to the media outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in March 144410. She had just dropped out of the presidential race.
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