Title: Elections in Vermont
Content:  Vermont is one of only two states represented by a member of the United States Congress who does not currently associate with a political party: Senator Bernie Sanders describes himself as a socialist and progressive, but caucuses with the Democrats in the selection of the Senate leadership. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1990 to 2006 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders often votes with the Democratic Party, but maintains his status as an independent in Congress. He is the only member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the Senate and was its first chair from 1991 to 1999. He is heavily supported during campaigns in his home state by the Progressive Party, though Sanders declines the party's official nomination. Patrick Leahy has been the longest serving Democratic member of Congress from Vermont since his election in 1974. Peter Welch has represented Vermont in the House since 2007, when he replaced Bernie Sanders.
Title: Vermont Senate
Content:  The Vermont Senate is the upper house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The senate consists of 30 members. Senate districting divides the 30 members into three single-member districts, six two-member districts, three three-member districts, and one six-member district. Each senator represents at least 20,300 citizens. Senators are elected to two-year terms and there is no limit to the number of terms that a senator may serve. As in other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the U.S. Senate, the state senate of Vermont has special functions, such as confirming or rejecting gubernatorial appointments to executive departments, the state cabinet, commissions, and boards, as well as electing members to the Vermont Supreme Court. The Vermont Senate meets at the Vermont State House in the state capital of Montpelier.
Title: Bernie Sanders
Content:  Bernard Sanders (born September8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007 and as the U.S. representative for the state's at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007. He will become Vermont's senior senator and dean of its congressional delegation following the scheduled retirement of Patrick Leahy in January 2023. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, although he has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career. Sanders unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 
Title: Vermont's at-large congressional district
Content: Major General Martha Rainville, USANG (ret) (R), former Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard. ; Vermont State senator Mark Shepard (R-Bennington County). ; Republican businessman Dennis Morrisseau, who promised to bring articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush. Incumbent Bernie Sanders retired to successfully run for a U.S. Senate seat. Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Welch (D-Windsor County) was the Democratic nominee and the eventual winner. Three candidates competed for the Republican nomination: Rainville won the Republican primary on September 12, beating Shepard by a wide margin. There were also numerous third party and independent candidates: Chris Karr (WTP), Bruce Marshall (Green Party), Dennis Morrisseau 
Title: List of United States senators from Vermont
Content:  Vermont was admitted to the Union on March 4, 1791. From the 1850s until well into the 20th century, Vermont was always represented by members of the Republican Party. Its current United States senators are Democrat Patrick Leahy and Independent Bernie Sanders. Leahy is the only Democrat ever elected to the Senate from Vermont, making Vermont have the longest current split senate delegation as well as the longest split delegation in history at 46 years currently, though both Independents, Jim Jeffords and Sanders, have caucused with the Senate Democrats since 2001. Vermont holds the distinction of being the only state to simultaneously have a split delegation and have both senators be a member of the same caucus. Having been in office since 1975, Leahy is currently the most senior incumbent Senator, and is the last one to have served during the presidency of Gerald Ford. Vermont is the only State that has never sent a woman to Congress.
Title: United States congressional delegations from Vermont
Content:  These are tables of congressional delegations from Vermont to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Vermont is the only State that has never sent a woman to Congress. Despite its status as a heavily Democratic-majority state, it has only sent one Democratic United States Senator to congress in its entire history; Patrick Leahy, currently serving. The current dean of the Vermont delegation is Senator and President pro tempore Patrick Leahy, having served in the Senate since 1975.
Title: Orsamus Cook Merrill
Content:  Merrill lost elections for Congress in 1822, 1826, 1827, 1830, 1832, and 1833, evidence that Vermont was trending away from Democrats and towards, in succession, the Anti-Masons, Whigs and Republicans. In 1822 Merrill served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention. He served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1822 to 1823 and from 1841 to 1847 he was county Judge of Probate. He was Bennington County's State's Attorney from 1823 to 1825, a member of the Governor's Council from 1824 until 1827, and a member of the first Vermont State Senate after the body was created in 1836. In 1839 he ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor.
Title: Chelsea, Vermont
Content: John L. Bacon, Chelsea and Hartford banker and State Treasurer ; Daniel Buck, US representative in the 4th States Congress ; Daniel Azro Ashley Buck, raised in Chelsea, US representative for Vermont in the 18th and 20th United States Congress ; David Whitney Curtis, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly ; William Hebard, resided in Chelsea, US representative for Vermont in the 31st and 32nd United States Congress ; F. Ray Keyser Sr., Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court ; F. Ray Keyser Jr., born and raised in Chelsea, 72nd governor of Vermont ; William A. Palmer, resided in Chelsea, US senator in the 15th and 16th United States Congress, 13th governor of Vermont ; William Freeman Vilas, born in Chelsea, United States Postmaster General, United States Secretary of the Interior, US senator for Wisconsin ; Stanley C. Wilson, resided in Chelsea, 62nd governor of Vermont ; John Young, born in Chelsea, US representative in the 24th and 27th United States Congress, 15th governor of New York 
Title: Norman H. McAllister
Content:  McAllister was elected to the Vermont House in 2002 and to the Senate in 2012, attracting little media attention as a legislator. In the House, McAllister sat on the Health and Human Services Committee, and was instrumental in reforming Vermont's child custody laws to make it easier for at-risk children to be placed in the custody of their relatives, rather than the state. A lifelong dairy farmer, Mcallister was one of only two senators to oppose Vermont's bill to require labeling of genetically modified food in 2014. He was appointed assistant minority leader of the Senate Republican caucus in 2014. He ran for re-election in 2016 and lost.
Title: Bernie Sanders
Content:  unsuccessful third-party political campaigns in the early to mid-1970s. He was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981 as an independent and was reelected three times. He won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, representing Vermont's at-large congressional district, later co-founding the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He served as a U.S. Representative for 16 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. Sanders was reelected to the Senate in 2012 and 2018. He chaired the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee from 2013 to 2015. In January 2021, Sanders became chair of the Senate Budget Committee. Sanders was a major candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": A senator; was born in Maassluis, represented Vermont's 3rd Congressional District, and worked as the Minister of Plantation Services.
Answer: False