Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20th, 1964) was an American politician, attorney and vice president of United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest ranking female official of the United States. Being a part of the Democratic Party, she was the attorney general for California from 2011 to 2017 and she was a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office prior to her move to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and then to the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was the San Francisco district attorney. Harris was elected Attorney General of California in 2010 and was elected again in 2014. Harris served as the junior United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez to become the second African American woman senator and the first South Asian American ever 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 an opportunity to become a citizen for undocumented immigrant immigrants and the DREAM Act, a ban against assault weapons, as well as progressive tax reform. In the news, attention was paid to her outspoken questions of Trump administration officials at Senate sessions. This included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual misconduct.




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