Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris born October 20th, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who is the 49th and current vice-president of the United States. Kamala Devi Harris is the first female vice president and is the highest ranking female politician in U.S history. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously was the attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017 and also as the state's attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California. She graduated from Howard University as well as the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Her professional career started in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. She was elected San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010 Harris was appointed Attorney General for California. She was reelected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senate from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez 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. As senator, Harris fought for health care, federal de-scheduling and legalization of cannabis which could lead to the citizenship for undocumented immigrants as well as the DREAM Act which bans assault weapons. Her pointed questioning of Trump officials during Senate hearings has garnered her national attention, which included the second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who was charged with sexual assault.




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