- If elected U.S. President, Warren would become the oldest person to assume the Presidency on Inauguration Day in January 2021 aged 71 years, 212 days.
- On Saturday February 9, 2019 she formally launched her 2020 Democratic Presidential Campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
- On December 31, 2018 she announced an exploratory committee to run for president in 2020.
- Was the Leo Gottieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she taught contract law, bankruptcy and commercial law. In the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, she was named chair of the Congressional oversight panel created to oversee the U.S. bailout of financial institutions, formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).
- She and her husband have a long-standing New Year's Eve tradition of staying in and watching Casablanca (1942), which she remarked she has seen "about a zillion times".
- Is an unlikely fan of the TV series Ballers (2015).
- In May 2009, she was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
- Her father was a janitor at Montgomery Ward.
- Supports strong financial government regulation and restrictions.
- Current husband, Bruce Mann, is a legal historian and law professor at Harvard Law School.
- Graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S. in 1970 and received a J.D. form Rutgers Law--Newark in 1976.
- Elected to the US Senate from Massachusetts in 2012, defeating incumbent Scott Brown in what became the second most expensive US election of the year, behind the presidential election. Her election made her the first female senator from Massachusetts.
- She has said that she is of 1/32 Cherokee Native American ancestry. Because of this, she has become the subject of dozens of articles by Cherokee genealogy site "Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter". They state, "[we have] done extensive research on her ancestry and on the stories she has told trying to back up her claim. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest she actually had a Cherokee or American Indian ancestor." Elizabeth's documented ancestry includes English, with smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of Swiss-German, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Swedish, and Cornish.
- Endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election.
- Merited a place in TIME magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage penned by Kamala Harris. (May 2017)
- Daughter of Pauline Louise (Reed) and Donald Jones Herring.
- When billionaire and former Goldman Sachs executive Leon G. Cooperman became tearful when speaking on CNBC at Warren's "vilification of the wealthy," Warren's campaign started selling mugs with the phrase "Billionaire Tears".
- Graduated from Northwest Classen High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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