What is the name of the first woman Vice-President of U.S.A?

Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. 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.

Her father (Donald Harris) was an American, her Mother (Shyamala Gopalan Harris) was an Indian and her Husband (Douglas Emhoff) was an American.

A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021, and as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. Harris became vice president upon inauguration in January 2021 alongside President Joe Biden, having defeated the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence, in the 2020 election.

Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. She was elected Attorney General of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021.

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Marian Spitzig

Her mother was a Tamil Indian ( from India). Her husband IS an American(he is living).

Flavio

Her father (Donald Harris) IS an Jamaican-American (he's still alive), her Mother (Shyamala Gopalan Harris) was an Indian (she's deceased) and her Husband (Douglas Emhoff) IS an American (he's also still alive).

Elsy O. Stromberg

Her husband still is an American last I checked.

earlepg

The 21% missing this must not be Americans. Like her or not, no American should miss this one.

bina sarmah

Who wrote the description here, why it is mentioned as "was". Those ppl are still alive.

Louella Wilson

Linda Dreher, also for anyone with even a cursory interest in world politics.

Mrs. Deadman

One simply cannot be both African American and Asian American. In order to be considered either, one must first be born in Africa or Asia and then move to America. When you're born here, no matter your color or race, you're simply an American.

Elsy O. Stromberg

Jenny Smith, Because of her father.

Ray Zagata

this person has NO CLUE what she is doing OR KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT POLITICS ..BUT she is smarter than SLEEPY BLANKEN JOE . SAD FOR AMERICA

dmarkc

Mrs. Deadman, you've been out of the loop. Apparently, you can "identify" as whatever you want to be an "poof," it is so. And you're expected to play the game, too!

Lorraine E Hegedus

This embarrassment will go down in history.

Mic Fenst

vudu, For what must you ridicule her? Her education? Her successes as a woman? Her successes as . . . . . ?

Marvin Ponton

What a waste could have picked someone that had over a third grade vocabulary but had to have someone that was not as smart as him

Cheryl Love

Mrs. Deadman, people born IN the usa can be African-American or Asian-American, not only those born elsewhere; and of course one identify as both.

Jas Newman

snowballs, To improve it?

snowballs

Why did they shuffle up her picture ???

Chris Baz

Mrs. Deadman, same in Australia … we get so sick of them trying segregate aboriginals from other Australians, when at the end of the day we are ALL Australian.