Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris was born October 20 1964. She is an American politician. Kamala Devi Harris is the first vice president to be female and the highest-ranking female politician in U.S. history, as being the first African American and first Asian American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she has previously served as attorney general for California from 2011 until 2017 and was the state's attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California from 2011 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland. Harris received her law degree from Howard University. Her professional career started in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later recruited to join the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. The office was named San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010, Harris was appointed Attorney General for California. She was reelected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senator from California between 2017 to 2021. Harris beat Loretta Sánchez in the 2016 Senate elections to become the second African American woman, and the first South Asian American, to be senator in the United States Senate. As senator, Harris fought for federal de-scheduling of healthcare, and legalization of cannabis which could lead to the citizenship for undocumented immigrants and the DREAM Act which bans assault weapons. The attention of the nation was drawn by her outspoken questions of Trump administration officials during Senate sessions. The most notable was Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual abuse.




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