Who is Nancy Pelosi?

Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who presided over the United States Nancy as House of Representatives as its 52nd speaker twice, from 2019 to 2023 and from 2007 to 2011. One of the most important House Speakers in American history, she was the first woman to hold the position. She has won several accolades and awards during her career, both in the US and abroad.

What is Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth?

An American politician named Nancy Pelosi is worth $120 million. Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, estimated their personal net worth to be between $43 million and $202 million in their most recent wealth statement, based on the value of their real estate holdings, stock interests, and other private assets.

She is the first woman to have ever held the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives in the history of the United States; she did so from 2007 to 2011 and will do so again starting in 2019 and continuing until 2023.

Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth And Biography

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Biography

On March 26, 1940, Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the youngest of seven children and the only female in the family. Her parents’ families are both of Italian descent. She comes from a politically engaged family. Her father was a Democratic congressman from Maryland at the time of her birth who subsequently rose to the position of mayor of Baltimore. Thomas D’Alesandro III, her brother, served as Baltimore’s mayor from 1967 to 1971. Additionally, her mother organized Democratic Women and was involved in the Democratic Party. Pelosi was thus exposed to politics at a young age when she started assisting her father with his many political engagements.

She earned her high school diploma from the Institute of Notre Dame, a Catholic all-girls high school, in 1958, and her bachelor’s degree in political science from Trinity College in 1962. Nancy met and started dating Paul Pelosi while she was a student at Trinity College. Pelosi was enrolled at Georgetown University at the time.

Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth And Biography

Career

In the 1960s, Pelosi worked as an intern for Maryland Senator Daniel Brewster before starting her own political career. Later, she relocated to San Francisco, California, where she became friends with Phillip Burton, a congressman from the 5th District. She was chosen to represent California on the Democratic National Committee in 1976, a post she held until 1996. Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, she also worked in a number of other positions for the Democratic Party, including that of finance chair for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Sala, Burton’s wife, succeeded him after his death in 1983. Sala Burton named Nancy Pelosi as her replacement after she decided against seeking re-election, thereby ensuring that Burton’s prior supporters would also back Pelosi. Pelosi won the subsequent special election after Sala passed away suddenly one month into her second term, and she was sworn in as the representative for the 5th District in June 1987. She served as the representative for the 5th District between 1987 and 1993, the 8th District between 1993 and 2013, and the 12th District from 2013 (as of April 2020).

Other notable positions Pelosi has held include Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011, House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003, Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 2003, House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, and from 2011 to 2019; she was sworn in again as Speaker in January 2019. She is the first person to be reelected to the position of Speaker for a non-consecutive term since Sam Rayburn in 1955. She was forced to accept an agreement that would have limited her to serving as a speaker for just four years in order to reclaim her job.

The announcement of the President’s impeachment hearings on September 24, 2019, occurred during Pelosi’s second term as Speaker, during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Pelosi has always been a Democrat and has a score of 92% on The American Civil Rights Union’s Congressional Scorecard for her voting record on civil rights. She has also continuously opposed initiatives like welfare reform and the Iraq War while supporting liberal issues like abortion, LGBTQ+, and gun control. She frequently sparks controversy in politics, both outside and inside her own party, but many also see her as a cunning and adept politician who can hold a splintered Democratic party somewhat together.

Awards and Honors

• 2006: Barbara Walters‘s Most Fascinating Person of the Year.
• 2006: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
• 2007 Glamour Woman of the Year Award
• 2007 TIME 100 Most Influential People
• 2007 National Equality Award, for leading the fight for LGBT rights 
• 2008 TIME 100 Most Influential People
• 2009 TIME Person of the Year Runner Up, TIME 100 Most Influential People
• 2010 TIME 100 Most Influential People
• 2010: 11th on the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women
• 2013: Induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
• 2014: 26th on the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women
• 2016: Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research
• 2016 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award
• 2018 TIME 100 Most Influential People
• 2019 JFK Profile in Courage Award
• 2019: 3rd on the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women
• 2019: Honoree at the VH1 Trailblazer Honors.
• 2019 LBJ Liberty & Justice for All Award
• 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award
• 2019 TIME 100 Most Influential People
• 2020 TIME 100 Most Influential People
• 2020 TIME 100 Women of the Year, TIME’s list of 100 most influential women over the past century
• 2020 7th on Forbes World’s Most Powerful Women List
• 2020 Madeleine K. Albright Democracy Award
• 2021: Inaugural Forbes 50 Over 50, a list of notable entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists, and creators over age 50.
• 2021 Inaugural Women for Peace and Security Prize, an honor awarded by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• 2022 25th on Forbes World’s Most Powerful Women List
• 2023 Human Rights & Freedom Defender Prize by Wei Jingsheng Foundation
• 2023 Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Leadership Award

Personal Life

Nancy Pelosi is actively involved in the Italian-American community. She serves on the boards of the National Organization of Italian-American Women and the National Italian-American Foundation and has done so for 13 years. She received a Special Achievement Award for Public Advocacy from the NIAF in 2007, and she is still active with the organization today.

When Nancy was a college student, she met Paul Frank Pelosi. In September 1963, they got hitched. Financial Leasing Services, INC is a venture capital, financial consultancy, and real estate company owned by Paul Pelosi. The Pelosis now holds substantial shares in businesses like Facebook, Apple, Comcast, Shutterfly, and the Walt Disney Company thanks to Paul. Paul Pelosi also has some commercial real estate in California, including a couple of office buildings in San Francisco.

For $10 million in 2009, Paul purchased the Oakland Invaders United Football League franchise. The squad was later disbanded after being quickly moved and given the moniker Sacramento Mountain Lions.

Paul and Nancy have five children together, making a total of nine grandkids. The Pelosis usually dwells in a house in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights area, which is estimated to be worth $10–20 million. In addition, they possess a $5 million to $25 million vineyard in St. Helena, California. In October 2022, a burglar broke into her San Francisco house, demanded to know where she was, and beat her husband Paul with a hammer. The suspect, 42-year-old David DePape, was detained and charged federally with six other state offenses, including assaulting a relative of a federal official and attempting to abduct Nancy Pelosi.

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