Kamala Harris, an American lawyer and politician (Vice President of the United States from 2021 to the present; the first African-American and Asian-American attorney general of California, was born in Oakland, California in 1964.
Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland's Kaiser Hospital to Indian American immigrant and breast cancer researcher Dr. Shyamala Gopalan and Jamaican-born Donald Harris, an emeritus professor of economics at Stanford. In the fall of 1962, the pair met as PhD students at the University of California, Berkeley, and married the following year. When Kamala Harris is sworn in as the United States' vice president on January 20, she will be the first female, first Black, and first South Asian to hold the position.
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