Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris born October 20 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 elected vice president and she is also the most powerful female officer in the history of America. As a part of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the attorney general for California from 2011 until 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. After starting her career as an Alameda County District Attorney, Harris was hired to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Later she became the City Attorney of San Francisco. In 2003 she was elected district attorney for San Francisco. Harris was elected Attorney-General of California in 2010 and was elected again in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senate from California from 2017-2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sánchez during the 2016 Senate elections, becoming the second African American woman, and the first South Asian American, to be senator in the United States Senate. In her time as a senator, she pushed for health reform, federal descholaring for cannabis, a pathway for undocumented immigrants to become citizens, the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. Harris also backed progressive tax reform. National attention was gained for her sharp examination of Trump administration officials at Senate hearings. The most notable was Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual abuse.




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