![]() They were sworn into office on January 20, 2021. On November 3, 2020, she became the first woman and the first African American and Asian American elected vice president of the United States, on the ticket with former senator and vice president Joe Biden of Delaware. Harris was the first African American and first woman elected district attorney of San Francisco (2004–2011) and attorney general of California (2011–2016). After earning her juris doctor degree, Harris served as the deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, before becoming the managing attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and then chief of the Division on Children and Families, where she established California’s first Bureau of Children’s Justice. Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., before returning to California to attend the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She is looking out the front windshield with both hands on the wheel. Harris (D-CA) became the first African American to represent California in the United States Senate on January 3, 2017. Image of a woman driving a car in winter. Kamala Harris became the first woman and the first African American elected as vice president of the United States in November 2020 and resigned her Senate seat on January 18, 2021. In January 2021 Raphael Warnock of Georgia won a run-off election to complete the term of Johnny Isakson, bringing the total number of African American senators to 11. Kamala Harris became California's first African American senator on January 3, 2017, bringing the number of African Americans serving simultaneously to three and the total number of African American senators to 10. Booker won election to a full term in 2014. Cory Booker of New Jersey became the ninth African American senator when he won a special election to replace Senator Frank Lautenberg on October 31, 2013. ![]() The appointment of Massachusetts senator William "Mo" Cowan on February 1, 2013, marked the first time that two African Americans have served simultaneously in the United States Senate. He won a special election in 2014 to complete the term and was elected to a full term in 2016. Tim Scott of South Carolina was appointed to fill a vacancy in 2013, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to represent a southern state in the Senate. Upon Obama's resignation to become the nation's first African American president, Roland Burris was appointed to fill the vacancy, becoming the sixth African American senator and the third to occupy the same Illinois Senate seat. In 2005 Barack Obama of Illinois became the fifth African American to serve and third to be popularly elected. Carol Moseley Braun broke new ground in 1993, becoming the first African American woman to serve as U.S. It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps. Bruce of Mississippi took the oath of office. In 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Permanent tattoos are acceptable for passport purposes as well.To date, 11 African Americans have served in the United States Senate. ![]()
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