Diane Feinstein

Diane Goldman Berman Feinstein (born in 1933) is old a mayor of San Francisco and since 1992, one of the two senators democratic S of California to the Sénat of the United States.

Born Diane Emiel Goldman the June 23rd 1933 in San Francisco in California, his/her father is Leon Goldman, a surgeon nationally recognized.

Graduate in history of the University of Stanford in 1955, it marries Jack Berman in 1957 which it divorces three years later.

In 1962, little time after having begun a political career, it marries the neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein.

In 1969, Diane Feinstein is member of the council of the supervisors ( Board off Supervisors ) of San Francisco.

In 1971 and 1975, it tries to be made elect mayor but is beaten.

The November 27th 1978, the mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone and the supervisor Harvey Milk, first politician openly homosexual of the country, are assassinated by rival a political, the ex-supervisor of the municipality daN White, opposed to political expansion and social of the mayor towards the homosexual ones. The December 4th 1978, by order of succession, Diane Feinstein becomes mayor.

She is re-elected mayor in 1979, survives an impeachment in 1984 and will remain in function until January 1988. She is the first and single woman to be elected mayor of this city, one of on the left of the the United States.

After death in 1978 of Bertram Feinstein of a Cancer of the colonist, Diane Feinstein remarie in 1980 with Richard C. Blum, a banker who in 1990 finance in its attempt to be elected a governor of California. It is then severely beaten by Pete Wilson, republican senator and former mayor of San Diego. In 1992, Diane Feinstein is elected with the Sénat of the United States, at the time of a special election, to finish the mandate of Pete Wilson whose seat of senator was held temporarily since his election as a governor, by John Seymour. She is re-elected in 1994, 2000 and in 2006 (with 60% of the voices compared with 35% with the republican Dick Mountjoy).

Lawyer of research on the Original cells starting from human embryos, Feinstein is a partisane control of the firearms although it has itself a firearm subjected to a special license particularly difficult to obtain.

Diane Feinstein is a liberal democrat (progressist), among on the left of the Senate. She however attracted herself the lightnings of many democratic militants when she supported by her vote the war in Iraq and has Co-sponsored in 2006 a new private bill against the desacralization of the American flag.

The incomes of its couple range between 26 and 50 million annual dollars.

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