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Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives since 2011, representing California's 12th congressional district.  She previously served as the 52nd Speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011, the only woman to do so. Her ascent to House Speaker also made her the highest-ranking female politician in the history of the United States.
A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi represents California's 12th congressional district which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House, and as the 8th from 1993 to 2013. All totaled, Pelosi has served 16 terms in the House of Representatives (15 full terms, and one term she was elected to in a mid-session special election), and will begin her 17th term in 2019.
Since 2003, Pelosi has served as the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives - as Minority Leader from 2003–2007 (during the 108th and 109th Congresses) and from 2011–2019 (112th to 115th Congresses) during periods of Republican control, and as Speaker of the House during Democrat control from 2007–2011 (the 110th and 111th Congresses).
Pelosi is the first woman, first Italian-American, and first Californian to lead a party in a chamber of congress.During and after her tenure as Speaker, Pelosi was perceived as a contentious political figure, with Republican candidates frequently trying to tie their Democratic opponents to Pelosi and with moderate Democrats seeking to show their moderate bona fides by expressing opposition to Pelosi. Pelosi is expected to run for Speaker of the House of Representatives on the opening of the 116th U.S. Congress on January 3, 2019. If elected Speaker, Pelosi would become the seventh individual to return to the Speakership on non-consecutive terms of office and the first since Sam Rayburn in 1955.