Jackie Speier is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 14, 1950 in California, California, United States. She endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in 2008.
Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier (/s p ɪər / ; born May 14, 1950) is an American politician who currently serves as a U.S. Representative for California’s 14th congressional district , serving in Congress since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 12th District from 2008 to 2013, includes the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and the southwest quarter of San Francisco. She represents much of the territory that had been represented by her political mentor, Leo Ryan. In 1978, while working as his aide, Speier survived five gunshot wounds she received when Ryan was assassinated during the Jonestown massacre.
Speier entered politics by serving as a congressional staffer for Congressman Leo Ryan. Speier was part of his November 1978 fact-finding mission organized to investigate allegations of human-rights abuses by Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, almost all of whom were American citizens who had moved to Jonestown, Guyana, with Jones in 1977 and 1978.
She has two children with her first husband Steve, who died in 1994.
She was shot five times during the November 1978 fact-finding mission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by the Reverend Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, which led to the mass suicide of over 900 of the Temple’s members.
Speier was born in 1950 in San Francisco, and grew up in an apolitical family, the daughter of Nancy (née Kanchelian) and Manfred “Fred” Speier (German: [ˈʃpaɪ̯ɐ] ). Her mother, who was born in Fresno of Armenian descent, lost most of her extended family in the Armenian Genocide, while her father was an emigrant from Germany. He was the son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Speier took Jacqueline as her confirmation name after Jackie Kennedy. She is a graduate of Mercy High School in Burlingame. She earned a B.A. degree from the University of California, Davis, and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1976.
