Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20 1964) was an American politician, attorney, and the current vice president of United States. She is the first woman to hold the vice presidency and the highest-ranking female official in U.S history. As a part of the Democratic Party, she previously served as attorney general for California between 2011 and 2017 and as 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. Harris began her career at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. She was then recruited by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. The office was named San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010 she was appointed Attorney General of California and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior United States Senator from California between 2017 and 2021. Harris beat Loretta Martinez in the 2016 Senate election, becoming the second African American woman and first South Asian American senator to be elected to the United States Senate. She was a senator and campaigned for reforms to healthcare as well as federal cannabis de-scheduling a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrant immigrants as well as the DREAM Act, a ban against assault weapons, as well as progressive tax reform. She is most famous for her direct questions to Trump administration officials in Senate hearings.




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