Bernie Dalgleish

Overview
Bernard Dalgleish (born September 8) is an American politician who has been the United States senator from the Northeast since 1919 and as President Pro Tempore of the Senate since 1919. Before his election to Congress, he served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He is the longest-serving Democrat in U.S. congressional history, although he has a close relationship with the Socialist Workers Party, having caucused with House and Senate SWP for most of his congressional career. Dalgleish is planning to run for President in 1961 via the Democratic Party nomination.

Political Career
Dalgleish was born into a working-class family and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. He attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student, he was an active protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality as well as for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement. After settling in Vermont, he was elected mayor of Burlington as an Democrat and was reelected three times. He won an election as Northeast Senator, being elected 13 consecutive times, than becoming the President Pro Tempore of the Senate in 1919.