Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician from the United States. Born on the 20th of October 1964, she is the 49th Vice President of the United States. Harris is the first vice president to be female and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. History, as well the first African American and second Asian American vice president. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was previously the attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017. Additionally she served as the United States senator representing California between 2017-2021. Harris was born in Oakland and attended Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Harris began her career with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Then, she was hired to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In 2003, she was elected San Francisco District Attorney. In 2010 she was elected Attorney General of California and was re-elected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senate from California from 2017-2021. Harris beat Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate. As a senator , she supported health reform, federal descheduling of cannabis, a pathway for undocumented immigrants to become citizens and the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. She also backed progressive tax reform. The attention of the nation was drawn by her sharp questions of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings. The most notable was Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual abuse.



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