Kamala Harris
Politician, attorney and former vice president
Kamala Harris is a lawyer and politician who was US vice president from 2021 to 2025, the first woman in that office.
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American Born 1964 in Oakland Medical Center, United States
About Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California, and studied at Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She started her legal career in the Alameda County district attorney's office, and was later elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003. She served as California's attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and as a US senator from California from 2017 to 2021. She then became vice president under President Joe Biden, and she was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election. Her books include The Truths We Hold.