Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris born October 20 1964) is an American politician and lawyer who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the first woman elected vice president, and also holds the title of highest-ranking female officer in the history of America. As a member of the Democratic Party, she was the former attorney general of California in 2011-2017 and she was a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Her first job was with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later promoted to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In 2003, she was elected San Francisco's district attorney. Harris was elected Attorney general of California in the year 2010. In 2014, she won re-election. Harris was the junior member of the United States Senate from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sánchez in the 2016 Senate elections, becoming the second African American woman, and the first South Asian American, to be a senator in the United States Senate. Harris was a senator and campaigned for reforms to healthcare as well as federal cannabis de-scheduling a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrant immigrants as well as the DREAM Act, a ban against assault weapons, as well as progressive tax reform. National attention was gained for her sharp examination of Trump administration officials at Senate sessions. This included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual abuse.




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