Bernie Sanders

Although many Democrats wanted this senator to become our next president, he didn’t get the nomination over Hillary Clinton in 2016. As a junior senator from the state of Vermont since 2007 and a representative in the House since 1991, you can bet that this won’t be the last you hear of ol’ Bernie Sanders. His fans, sometimes called “Berners,” are quite a fierce bunch, so this politician — originally from Brooklyn, New York — is raring to keep the political world on its toes for years to come. Old pictures of Sanders, especially from his high school yearbook, show a curly-haired student who would help upend American politics decades later.