This article may be affected by the following current event: Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election. Information in this article may change rapidly as the event progresses. Initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (July 2024) |
Kamala Harris | |
---|---|
49th Vice President of the United States | |
Assumed office January 20, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Mike Pence |
United States Senator from California | |
In office January 3, 2017 – January 18, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Barbara Boxer |
Succeeded by | Alex Padilla |
32nd Attorney General of California | |
In office January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2017 | |
Governor | Jerry Brown |
Preceded by | Jerry Brown |
Succeeded by | Xavier Becerra |
27th District Attorney of San Francisco | |
In office January 8, 2004 – January 3, 2011 | |
Preceded by | Terence Hallinan |
Succeeded by | George Gascón |
Personal details | |
Born | Kamala Devi Harris[a] October 20, 1964 Oakland, California, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | |
Parents | |
Relatives | Family of Kamala Harris |
Residence | Number One Observatory Circle |
Education | |
Occupation |
|
Signature | |
Website | |
Kamala Devi Harris[b][a] (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.[4][5] A member of the Democratic Party, she was previously a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021 and the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017.
Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her law career in the office of the district attorney (DA) of Alameda County, before being recruited to the San Francisco DA's Office and later the city attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected DA of San Francisco. She was elected attorney general of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021; she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African-American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the U.S. Senate.[6][7]
As a senator, Harris advocated for gun control laws, the DREAM Act, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, federal legalization of cannabis, as well as healthcare and taxation reform.[8][9] She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.[10]
Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination but withdrew from the race prior to the primaries. Biden selected her to be his running mate, and their ticket went on to defeat the then incumbent president and vice president, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, in the 2020 election. Harris and Biden were inaugurated on January 20, 2021. After Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election, Harris launched her own campaign for president with Biden's endorsement.
In 2017, Kamala D. Harris was sworn in as a United States senator for California, the second African-American woman, and first South Asian-American senator in history.
Harris is the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, and is the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in history.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha>
tags or {{efn}}
templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
template or {{notelist}}
template (see the help page).
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search