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American-British politician of the Green Party

Lawrence Sanders (born April 29, 1935)^[2][3] is an American-British academic, social worker, politician, and former Health and Social Care Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales.

He is the older brother of Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont and two-time U.S. presidential candidate.

Early life, education, and family

Larry Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York City to Dorothy (née Glassberg) and Eli Sanders.^[4][5] His father was a Polish-Jewish immigrant whose family was killed in the Holocaust,^[4][6][7] while his mother was born in New York City on October 2, 1912, to Jewish immigrant parents from Radzyń Podlaski, in eastern Poland and Russia.^[8][9][10] His father was born in Słopnice, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Poland), on September 19, 1904,^[11&#