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Nancy Patricia Pelosi (/ p ə ˈ l oʊ s i / pə-LOH-see; née D'Alesandro; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi received 220 votes, a majority of the chamber, to become its speaker. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy garnered 192 votes, with 18 more going to others. As only 430 representatives in the 435-member House cast a vote (due to vacancies, absentees, or members being present but not voting), 216 votes were ...
The electoral history of Nancy Pelosi spans more than three decades, from the mid-1980s to the present. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States , Nancy Pelosi was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a 1987 special election , after the death of Congresswoman Sala Burton that February.
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff is an American philanthropist and environmentalist. Nordhoff's work is primarily focused in the Seattle and Langley, Washington regions, where she works to empower women, support rural communities and promote environmentalism of Washington's flora and fauna.
This is a partial list of flora that are native to the U.S. state of Washington. Plants sorted by family ... Vancouveria hexandra — white inside-out flower; Holly ...
Charles Odegaard – President of the University of Washington, 1958–1973; Dixy Lee Ray – seventeenth governor of the state of Washington, the first woman to hold that position; Paul Schell – former mayor of Seattle; former Dean of the University of Washington School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1992–1995
Seattle, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island, Vashon Island: Original statewide area code until 1957, when area code 509 was created for Eastern Washington. Further splits in 1995 to create area code 360 for most of Western Washington, and 1997 to form area codes 253 and 425. 564 will be added to the 206 area in 2025. 509
The return of the Seattle exurbs, combined with the continued proliferation of cell phones, faxes, and pagers, hastened a three-way split of the 206 territory, effective on April 25, 1997. The southern portion, including Tacoma, received area code 253 , while the northern portion, including Everett and the Eastside , was assigned area code 425 .