In 1958, Pelosi graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame, an all-girls Catholic high school in Baltimore. Kennedy's inaugural address in January 1961. Pelosi helped her father at his campaign events, and she attended President John F. Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was elected Baltimore City Council president and later served as mayor from 1967 to 1971. Pelosi's mother was also active in politics, organizing Democratic women and teaching her daughter political skills. He became Baltimore mayor seven years later.
When Pelosi was born, her father was a Democratic congressman from Maryland. in 1912 her father traced his Italian ancestry to Genoa, Venice and Abruzzo. Her mother was born in Fornelli, Isernia, Molise, in Southern Italy, and immigrated to the U.S. "Nancy" D'Alesandro (née Lombardi) and Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.
She was the only daughter and the youngest of seven children of Annunciata M. Nancy Pelosi was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to an Italian-American family. On November 29, 2022, the Steering and Policy Committee of the House Democratic Caucus named Pelosi "Speaker Emerita". In the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans regained control of the House for the new Congress, ending her tenure as speaker. She participated in the passage of the Biden administration's landmark bills, including the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and the Respect for Marriage Act. During her second speakership, the House twice impeached President Donald Trump, first in December 2019 and again in January 2021 the Senate acquitted Trump both times. In the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats regained majority control of the House, and Pelosi was again elected Speaker, becoming the first former speaker to reclaim the gavel since Sam Rayburn in 1955. Pelosi lost the speakership after the Republican Party retook the majority in the 2010 midterm elections, but she retained her role as leader of the House Democrats and became House minority leader for a second time. She participated in the passage of the Obama administration's landmark bills, including the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and the 2010 Tax Relief Act. During her first speakership, Pelosi was a major opponent of the Iraq War as well as the Bush administration's attempts to partially privatize Social Security. In the 2006 midterm elections, Pelosi led the Democrats to a majority in the House for the first time in 12 years and was subsequently elected Speaker, becoming the first woman to hold the office. Pelosi steadily rose through the ranks of the House Democratic Caucus to be elected House minority whip in 2002 and elevated to House minority leader a year later, becoming the first woman to hold each of those positions in either chamber of Congress. She was first elected to Congress in a 1987 special election and is now in her 19th term she is the dean of California's congressional delegation. Focused on raising her family, Pelosi stepped into politics as a volunteer for the Democratic Party. They moved to New York City before settling down in San Francisco with their children. She graduated from Trinity College, Washington, in 1962 and married businessman Paul Pelosi the next year the two had met while both were students. Pelosi was born and raised in Baltimore, the daughter of mayor and congressman Thomas D'Alesandro. The district, numbered as the 5th district from 1987 to 1993, the 8th from 1993 to 2013, and the 12th from 2013 to 2023, includes most of the city of San Francisco. She has represented California's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 1987. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected Speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, leading the House Democrats for 20 years, from 2003 to 2023. Nancy Patricia Pelosi ( / p ə ˈ l oʊ s i/ née D'Alesandro born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
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