As the first woman to lead a political party in Congress, Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Nancy Patricia D’Alessandro Pelosi (1940-) is born and raised in the tightly-knit Italian American community of Baltimore. Little Italy is still a well known destination in downtown. She receives her training and interest in politics from her immigrant mother Annunciata, her father, Thomas D’Alessandro, who serves as a U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Baltimore, and her brother, Thomas, III, who also serves as Mayor. After graduating from high school, she goes to college in Washington, DC and meets her husband, Paul Pelosi.
The Pelosi family lives in New York and then moves to San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi has represented California’s 11th Congressional District in San Francisco for more than 35 years.
