Kamala Harris
American politician and lawyer who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden and was the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential election. She was the first woman, first African American and first Asian American vice president.
Biography
Kamala Harris is an American politician and lawyer. She was District Attorney of San Francisco and then Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017.
She was elected to the US Senate from California in 2016. In 2020 Joe Biden chose her as his running mate, and she became the first woman, first African American and first Asian American vice president in 2021.
When Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, she became the Democratic nominee. She lost the election to Donald Trump.
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Education
- Howard University BA in political science and economics
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco JD (then Hastings College of the Law)
