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Curtis was the first multiracial person to serve as Vice President of the United States, [26] and was the only one until Kamala Harris was inaugurated in 2021. [39] Curtis was also the only United States vice president to have inaugurated the Olympic Games . [ 40 ]
Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also the ...
It is possible for an incumbent vice president to win reelection as the running mate of a new president-elect, in which case there would be a United States presidential transition with the election of a new president-elect, but there would be no vice president-elect. This first happened in 1808 when Vice President George Clinton, who was ...
After the contentious 2020 election, Harris made history as the first woman, the first Black American and the first South Asian American to serve as vice president of the United States.
Vice President Kamala Harris made history Wednesday as she became the first female vice president and the first vice president of color.
The claim: John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States. In the past few years, multiple social media posts have declared John Hanson, not Barack Obama, as the first Black ...
First African-American and first female elected Vice President of the United States: Kamala Harris [348] First African American to be appointed as a military Chief of Staff and first African American to lead any branch of the United States Armed Forces: Charles Q. Brown Jr.
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest ranking office in the executive branch [8] [9] of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice president is also an officer in the legislative branch, as the president of the Senate.