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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

American politician and activist (born 1989)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is an American politician and activist who has served since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.

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“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” enters the record as american politician and activist (born 1989). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alexandria, Ocasio-Cortez and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alexandria, Ocasio-Cortez and American.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.