Dianne Feinstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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United States Senator from California
Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1933
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About Dianne Feinstein
- Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (; born Dianne Emiel Goldman, June 22, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from California.
- She took office on November 4, 1992.
- A member of the Democratic Party, Feinstein was Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.Born in San Francisco, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
- In the 1960s, she worked in city government, and she was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969.
- She served as the board's first female president in 1978, during which time the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk by Dan White drew national attention.
- Feinstein succeeded Moscone as Mayor of San Francisco and became the first woman to serve in that position.
- During her tenure, she led the renovation of the city's cable car system, and oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention. After losing a race for governor in 1990, Feinstein won a 1992 special election to the U.S.
- Senate.
- Feinstein was first elected on the same ballot as her peer Barbara Boxer, and the two women became California's first female U.S.
- Senators.
- Feinstein has been re-elected five times since then, and in the 2012 election, she received 7.75 million votes—the most popular votes in any U.S.
- Senate election in history.Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban which expired in 2004.
- In 2013, she introduced a new assault weapons bill which failed to pass.
- Feinstein is the first and only woman to have chaired the Senate Rules Committee (2007–2009) and the Select Committee on Intelligence (2009–2015).
- To date, she is also the only woman to have presided over a U.S.
- presidential inauguration.
- At the age of 86, Feinstein is the oldest sitting U.S.
- Senator.
- Upon the retirement of Barbara Mikulski in January 2017, Feinstein became the longest-tenured female U.S.
- Senator currently serving in the Senate.
- Having won reelection in 2018 to a six-year term expiring in January 2025, Feinstein will become the longest-serving female Senator in history should she serve her full term.
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