Dianne Feinstein Genealogy
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Born June 22, 1933, in San Francisco, California, Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein is an American Senator. Feinstein graduated from Stanford and worked in various city positions before being elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, where she became the first female president. When Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated in 1978, Feinstein succeeded Moscone as mayor, becoming San Francisco's first female mayor. In 1992, she won a special election to the U.S. Senate at the same time as Barbara Boxer, making the two the first female senators from California. Feinstein has been re-elected four times since then, earning the record for the most popular vote in any U.S. Election in history in 2012 with 7.75 million votes. At 80, she is the oldest serving U.S. Senator and is the first woman to have presided over a U.S. presidential inauguration.
Dianne Feinstein's last name, "Feinstein," is a German/Hebrew name meaning "fine stone." Other spellings include "Feinsteine." The first known Feinstein to come to America was Esther Feinstein in 1931.