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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz opens up to Vice President Kamala Harris about the impact that his dad's death from lung cancer had on his family in an upcoming video produced for their presidential campaign.
The vice president's father has been largely absent from her political life.
Scripps News traveled to Jamaica and met some of Harris' family members, who gave insight into the vice president's father and upbringing. (Scripps News)
According to Harris, "We talked then, continued to talk at a subsequent meeting, and at another, and another." [41] In July 1963, he married Shyamala. [41] Harris and Shyamala had two children: Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States; and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator; [18] [41] the couple divorced in 1971 ...
Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [10] arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1966. [11] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963. [12] [13] He would become a Stanford University professor of economics in 1972. [14] [15]
Kamala Harris was the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. Harris was formerly the junior United States senator from California, and prior to her election to the Senate, she served as the 32nd attorney general of California. Her family includes several members who are notable in politics and academia.
As a lawyer and U.S. Senator, Harris’s identity in both her personal life and politics has been largely shaped by her background: her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who died in 2009, was an ...
Here, her family tree—featuring the Harris, Gopalan, and Emhoff families, all the extended family of Kamala Harris: Vice President Harris’s family tree. Design by Michael Stillwell