Facts about Kamala Harris | USA 49th Vice President | International

 United States of America is one of the developed and largest democratic country of the world. In November 2024, there is going to be Presidential election in which Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are top competitors. In these two, one is going to win the election ,and the winner would be the President of USA. Well, we want to know about Kamala Harris , who is she, what is her family background, how she came into politics, and more.

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So, here are some of the fun and top facts about Kamala Harris.


                                                                                        

1- Kamala Harris was born on 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California , US. She is now 59 years old. 

2- Parents of Kamala Harris are Donald Jasper Harris is her father who came to USA from Jamaica in 1961 and is very well known in economy development sector, he is a professor emiterus in Stanford University.  Her mother , Shyamala Gopalan who was an Indian , she arrived in USA in 1958 for her graduation in the University of California, she was a cancer researcher and held from Tamil Nādu of India to America where she met Donald J Harris in 1961 and married together in 1963. They had two children one is Kamala Harris and second is Maya Harris. 

3- Her parents got divorced in 1970 when she was only seven years old. After divorce her mother moved to Montreal, Canada. 

4- Kamala Harris had education in Canada , she graduated from Westmount High School in 1981 and got graduated in political science and economics from Howard University based in Washington D.C, US in 1986. Later, she attended University of California, Hastings College of the Law and got a degree of Juris Doctor in 1989, JD which is a professional and qualifying law degree for US to practice law in USA.

5- Height of Kamala Harris is 164 centimeters which is 5.4+1/2 feet.

6- Her career starts from 1990 when she became district attorney of Alameda County of California. Later, in 2002 she ran a campaign to be elected as District attorney for San Francisco, in 2007 again she won the election for the same and became district attorney of San Francisco again.

7- She became Attorney General of California in 2011 , she was the first woman to be elected as such, moreover she was the first South Asian American to win the election for Attorney General of California, in 2014 she again won the election for the same rank.

8- There are two major political parties of USA- Democratic and Republican. She is from the Democratic party of USA.

9- In 2015 , she got Doctor of Law from University of Southern California for her dignified work as Attorney General and in 2017 she was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters from Howard University.

10- In 2020 US election , Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate for Vice President and he won that election, thus Kamala Harris became the Vice President of USA , she was the first Indian American to do so.

11- Here is a fun fact, when Joe Biden won 2020 election , in a video,  Kamala Harris called him and said these lines- "We did it !! We did it, Joe !! You are going to be the next President", well, this line was widely used in memes and a tweet with the video was one of the ten most liked video of 2020, and moreover, Biden and Kamala Harris were jointly the Person of the year by TIME magazine for 2020.

12- She is the first female to be Vice President of USA.

13- Full name of Kamala Harris is Kamala Devi Harris.

14- Kamala Harris 's laughter is very popular, her loud and energetic laughter is known to everyone and it is one of the best remarkable trait of her. She told media about her laughter that she got it from her mother.

15- On 21 July 2024 , Joe Biden suspended his re-election for the year and asked Kamala Harris to be a candidate for President election 2024, as soon her candidacy was released her political campaign got a donation 81 million dollar in just 24 hours. This was the first highest donation to a campaign in US election campaigns' history.

16- Well, she secured her nomination for US Presidential election 2024 and announced Tim Walz  as her running mate, so Tim would be Vice President if she wins the 2024 election.

17- Let us know some of her dating and marriage, she dated Willie Brown and Montel Williams in her 1990s but its was in 2013 when she went to a blind date with Doug Emhoff and married him in 2014. 

18- She is step mother of two children from her husband 's first wife ,  Cole and Ella are names of those children.

19- Maya Harris who is her sister is married to Tony West and her sister, Maya has a daughter named as Meena Harris who is niece of Kamala Harris.

20- Kamala Harris was 49th Vice President of USA. 

So, above were some of the top and fun facts of Kamala Harris, running for Presidential election 2024. Her viral video of Joe Biden still gives us a laughter. And, her amazing laughter is natural plus energetic. Her parents , her mother had died but her father is still alive. She has net worth of 6 million dollars. She is a Baptist , she goes to Church. She had been a senator for Department of Justice in 2016.