Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris was born October 20 1964. She is an American politician. She is the first vice president to be female and the most powerful female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. As a member of the Democratic Party, she was the attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017 and was she was a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California. She graduated from Howard University as well as the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Her professional career started in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In 2003, she was the San Francisco district attorney. Harris was elected Attorney General of California in 2010. In 2014, she won re-election. From 2017 until 2021, Harris was the junior United States senator for California. Harris defeated Loretta Martinez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and first South Asian American senator to be elected to the United States Senate. As a senator, Harris advocated for healthcare, federal de-scheduling and cannabis legalization, a path to citizenship for immigrants who are not legally documented, as well as the DREAM Act which bans assault weapons. She is well-known for the direct questioning she conducted of Trump government officials in Senate hearings.






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