From Wikipedia:
Pelosi was born Nancy D'Alesandro in Baltimore, Maryland to Italian American parents. She became involved in politics at an early age and her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland and also a Mayor of Baltimore.
Pelosi attended Trinity College (now Trinity University) in Washington, DC, where she met her future husband, Paul Pelosi. When the couple married, they moved to his hometown of San Francisco, where his brother was a member of the city's Board of Supervisors (San Francisco city & county--council).
Once the youngest of their five children became a senior in high school, Nancy Pelosi became involved in Democratic politics, working her way up to becoming party chairwoman for Northern California, and joining forces with one of the leaders of California Democratic Party politics, 5th District Congressman Phillip Burton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. (August 1, 1903–August 23, 1987) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from the third district of Maryland.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, D'Alesandro attended Calvert Business College in Baltimore. Before beginning his political career, he worked as a broker and in insurance, a career he returned to after his political service.
His daughter, Nancy Pelosi, is a Representative from California, currently serving as the House Minority Leader. D'Alesandro's son, Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro III, also served as Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971.
A Democrat, D'Alesandro served as a member of the Maryland State House of Delegates from 1926 to 1933. After serving in Annapolis, D'Alesandro was then appointed as General Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, a post in which he served during 1933–1934. He then was elected to serve on the Baltimore City Council from 1935 to 1938.
D'Alesandro was then elected to the 76th Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1939, until he resigned on May 16, 1947. Following his service in Congress he was Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years from May 1947 to May 1959. He was defeated for renomination by the Democrats in the March primary election in 1958. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1958.
D'Alesandro was a delegate to every Democratic National Convention from 1944 to 1968 and also served on the Federal Renegotiation Board from 1961 to 1969 before retiring from political life.
D'Alesandro lived in Baltimore until his death there in 1987.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%27Alesandro%2C_Jr.
This is all I've been able to find - not sure why he resigned from Congress in 1947. I've also read that he 'was a crook' more than once - not sure specifically what he did.
I'm a Baltimorean, and a lifelong Republican. I do not know of any dirt about Nancy's father. PS: I knew her slightly in high school.
Thanks for that info,but this was not General Wikipedia type info , this was insider info from Baltimorans(native ballmer'ns) involving kickbacks and in the Brother's case sexual assault. I could not remember her Maiden name off hand. You are right,there have been a lot of posts over the years talking about how the apple does not fall very far from the tree, and why.