Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris, born on the 20th of October, 1964, is a prominent American politician and lawyer. She is currently the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president , and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. As a member the Democratic Party, she was the attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017 and 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. Harris started her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office prior to her move to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and then to the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected San Francisco District Attorney. She was elected Attorney general of California in the year 2010. In 2014, she was elected to a second term. From 2017 to 2021, Harris was the junior United States senator for California. Harris defeated Loretta Santiago in the 2016 Senate election making her the second African American woman to serve in the Congress, and the first South Asian American American to be elected to the United States Senate. Harris was a senator who fought for health care and federal de-scheduling of cannabis. A path to citizenship for undocumented migrants. The DREAM Act bans assault weapons and progressive tax reform. The attention of the nation was drawn by her outspoken questions of Trump administration officials at Senate hearings. This included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault.

 





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