Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris was born October 20, 1964. She is an American politician. She is also the first vice president to be female and highest-ranking female official of U.S. History, as well the first African American and second Asian American vice president. 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 until 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California. She graduated from Howard University as well as the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Harris started her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office prior to being enlisted into the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. The office was named San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010 Harris was elected Attorney General for California. She was reelected in 2014. Harris served as the junior United States Senator from California between 2017 until 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Martinez in 2016's Senate election to become the 2nd African American woman and first South Asian American senator to be elected to the United States Senate. In her time as a senator, she pushed for health reform, federal descholaring 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. Her sharp questioning of Trump officials in Senate hearings has earned her national attention, which included the second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who was charged with sexual assault.



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