Kamala Harris

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Preceded by 48th Vice President Mike Pence Preceded by Barbara Boxer

Kamala Harris 49th Vice President of the United States 2021— US Senator from California 2017—2021

Succeeded by 50th Vice President Succeeded by Alex Padilla

Kamala Harris is a part of US Black heritage.

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Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney who is 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.

Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ/ KAH-mə-lə;) was born 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California to parents Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan.^[1]

She graduated from Howard University and University of California, Hastings College of the Law.^[2] In the 1990s, she worked in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2004, she was elected District Attorney of San Francisco.

Harris won the election as California's Attorney General in 2010 and was reelected in 2014 by a wide margin. On 8 November 2016, she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to succeed outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer, becoming California's third female U.S. Senator, and the first of either Jamaican or Indian ancestry. Since becoming a Senator, she has supported single-payer healthcare, federal descheduling of cannabis, support for sanctuary cities, the DREAM Act, and lowering the tax burden for the working and middle classes while raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest one percent of Americans.

A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 27th District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 until 2017.

On 22 August 2014 she married Douglas Emhoff in Santa Barbara, California.

Harris served as the junior United States Senator from California from 2017-2021.

She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 election. She ended up running on Joseph Biden's ticket as the Vice Presidential option under the Democratic party. Biden/Harris were elected President/Vice President to the United States in a hotly contended election against Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Harris was inaugurated as the first female Vice President of the United States, the first Indian-American US Vice President, and the first Jamaican-American US Vice President.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGKR-46Q : 27 November 2014), Kamala D Harris, 20 Oct 1964; citing Alameda, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.
2. ↑ The White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-harris/ Accessed 4 March 2021.
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Kamala Harris Accessed 4 March 2021.

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q10853588, en:Wikipedia