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Kamala Devi Harris [b] (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female U.S. vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history.
Kamala Harris was elected the attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, Black American, and South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history. She took office on January 3, 2011, and would be re-elected in 2014 to serve until she resigned on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the United States Senate .
This is the electoral history of Kamala Harris, the 49th and current vice president of the United States. Kamala Harris previously served as a United States senator from California (2017–2021), the 32nd attorney general of California (2011–2017), and the 27th district attorney of San Francisco (2004–2011).
She was then an assistant district attorney in Alameda from 1990 to 1998 before moving across the bay to fulfil the same role in the San Francisco district attorney’s office.
Sworn into office in San Francisco on the same day two decades ago, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris climbed the ranks of California politics together. The governor is now navigating his new place ...
Kamala Harris said in 2016 that she was California’s “top cop.” ... Harris supported legalizing marijuana. But earlier, as a San Francisco prosecutor and California attorney general, she ...
In 2006, as San Francisco's district attorney, Harris expressed support for the city's sanctuary city policy of not inquiring about immigration status in the process of a criminal investigation, saying it allowed people to come forward as witnesses to crimes when they might not have otherwise. [98]
For the record: 5:53 p.m. Aug. 11, 2024: An earlier version of this article said Kamala Harris was elected district attorney in San Francisco in 2002.She was elected in 2003. In a boisterous ...