Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris was born on the 20th of October, 1964. She is an American politician. She is the first female vice president and is the highest-ranking female official in U.S history. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was previously the attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017. Additionally she was a United States senator representing California between 2017-2021. Harris was born and raised in Oakland, California. Her professional career started in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later promoted to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In 2003 she was elected as the district attorney of San Francisco. In 2010 Harris was appointed Attorney General of California and then re-elected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senate from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez to become the 2nd African American woman senator and the first South Asian American ever to be elected to the United States Senate. In her time as a senator, she pushed for health reform, federal descholaring for cannabis, a pathway for undocumented immigrants to become citizens, the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. She also backed progressive tax reform. Her most well-known accomplishments are her sharp questions to Trump administration officials in Senate hearings.




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