Levi Sanders

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American from a noted family, the son of politician Bernie Sanders who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Bernard 'Bernie' Sanders married Deborah Shiling in 1964 and they bought a summer home in Vermont; they had no children and divorced in 1966. Over the next few years, he took various jobs in New York and Vermont and spent several months on an Israeli kibbutz. Levi was born to girlfriend Susan Campbell Mott. In 1988, Sanders married Jane O’Meara Driscoll (née Mary Jane O'Meara), who later became president of Burlington College, in Burlington, Vermont. With her he has three stepchildren—Dave Driscoll, Carina Driscoll, and Heather Titus (née Driscoll)—whom he considers to be his own children. Levi Sanders earned a B.A. in history at the University of Oregon in 1992. He served as a consultant for his father's 2006 Senate campaign. He works as a social security disability insurance senior analyst in a Boston legal services company, handling insurance claims in disability cases. Link to Bernie Sanders: Personal life