Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician from the United States. Born on the 20th of October 1964, she was the 49th Vice-President of the United States. She is the first woman to be elected vice president, and she also holds the title of most powerful female officer in the history of America. A part of the Democratic Party, she previously served as attorney general for California from 2011 until 2017 and also as an 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 her move to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was the San Francisco district attorney. She was elected Attorney General of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior United States senator from California between 2017 and 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sánchez during the 2016 Senate elections, becoming the second African American woman, and the first South Asian American, to serve as a senator in the United States Senate. As senator, Harris fought for health care, federal de-scheduling and legalization of cannabis as a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as well as the DREAM Act which bans assault weapons. The attention of the nation was drawn by her outspoken questions of Trump administration officials at Senate hearings. This included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault.




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