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by TheaGood
on 9/5/16
Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring) is an American academic and politician, who is the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and was previously a Harvard Law School professor specializing in bankruptcy law.
She CLAIMS to be born on June 22, 1949, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to working class parents Pauline (née Reed) and Donald Jones Herring.
Married in 1968 her high school boyfriend, Jim Warren who was a NASA engineer.
Warren and her husband moved for his work to New Jersey, where she enrolled at the Rutgers School of Law–Newark
divorced in 1978.
In 1980, Elizabeth married Bruce Mann, a law professor, but retained the surname Warren.


Bruce Hartling Mann is the Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a legal historian whose research focuses on the relationship among legal, social, and economic change in early America. He began at Harvard Law School in Fall 2006, after being the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mann graduated from Hingham High School in 1968.
Mann holds A.B. and A.M. degrees from Brown University (1972) and M.Phil., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University (1975, 1975, and 1977, respectively). His dissertation is titled "Rationality, Legal Change, and Community in Connecticut, 1690–1760." Mann is licensed to practice law in Connecticut since 1975.
After graduation, Mann taught at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Houston, University of Texas, University of Michigan, and the history department at Princeton University.In 1987, Mann started to teach at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mann is married to Elizabeth Warren, who is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts.
She has two children by her first marriage:
Amelia
Alexander