Kamala Harris

Described as

Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025

Other names

Kamala Devi Harris, Vice President Harris, VP Harris, Senator Harris, Sen. Harris, Momala, VPOTUS46, VP 46, Kamala Iyer Harris, Mrs. Emhoff, Mrs Emhoff, Kamala Devi

Born

October 20, 1964 · 5 references

Born in

Oakland Medical Center · 2 references

Name at birth

Kamala Devi Harris · 1 reference

Citizen of

United States · 1 reference

Occupation

politician · 3 references; lawyer · 1 reference; prosecutor · 1 reference; writer; presidential candidate · 1 reference; jurist · 2 references; public prosecutor general · 1 reference

Positions held

deputy district attorney (1990–1998) · 2 references; San Francisco District Attorney (2004–2011) · 3 references; Attorney General of California (2011–2017) · 1 reference; United States senator (2017–2021) · 1 reference; Vice President of the United States (2021–2025) · 6 references; vice-president-elect (2020–2021) · 41 references; justice minister · 1 reference

Political party

Democratic Party · 1 reference

Worked for

San Francisco District Attorney's Office (1998–2000); California Department of Justice (2011–2017)

Education

University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (–1989) · 2 references; Howard University (–1986) · 2 references; Westmount High School (–1981); F.A.C.E. School

Member of

Alpha Kappa Alpha (1986–); Congressional Black Caucus · 1 reference; Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus; Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues

Known for

The Truths We Hold; Superheroes Are Everywhere; Smart on Crime

Awards

Thurgood Marshall Award (2005); honorary doctor of the University of Southern California (2015) · 1 reference; honorary doctor of the Howard University (2017) · 1 reference; Time 100 (2021) · 1 reference

Field

criminal justice; criminal prosecution; politics · 1 reference; law · 1 reference

Spouse

Doug Emhoff (2014–) · 1 reference

Father

Donald J. Harris · 1 reference

Mother

Shyamala Gopalan Harris · 1 reference

Siblings

Maya Harris · 1 reference

Religion

Baptists · 2 references

Lived in

Los Angeles · 1 reference; San Francisco · 1 reference; Washington, D.C. · 1 reference; Montreal; West Berkeley · 1 reference

Nickname

Momala

Height

1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) · 1 reference

Website

https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-harris/; https://kamalaharris.com/

Wikipedias with a page

194

Wikidata item Q10853588 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q10853588), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.

Kamala Devi Harris ( KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election. Of Indian and Jamaican parentage, she is the first female, first African American, and first Asian American vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian public official in U.S. history. Harris represented California in the United States Senate from 2017 to 2021 and was the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017.
Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her law career in the office of the district attorney of Alameda County. Harris was recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later to the office of the city attorney of San Francisco. She was elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010, and reelected as attorney general in 2014. Harris was the junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021 after winning the 2016 Senate election. She was the second Black female and first South Asian American U.S. senator.
As a senator, Harris advocated for stricter gun control laws, the DREAM Act, federal legalization of cannabis, and reforms to healthcare and taxation. She gained a national profile while asking pointed questions of officials from Donald Trump's first administration during Senate hearings, including Trump's second U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in 2019, but withdrew from the race before the primaries. Biden selected her as his running mate; their ticket defeated the incumbent president and vice president, Trump and Mike Pence, in the 2020 presidential election.
When her vice presidency began, Harris presided over an evenly split U.S. Senate. She cast 33 tie-breaking votes, more than any other vice president, including votes to pass the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act. In July 2024, after Biden withdrew his candidacy from the 2024 presidential election, Harris quickly launched her own presidential campaign with his immediate endorsement. She later became the nominee and selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. They lost the election to the Republican nominees, former president Trump and Ohio senator JD Vance. It has been speculated that Harris will run in the 2028 United States presidential election.

Born, in its opening lines

October 20, 1964

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