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Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brown's Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan), [8] [9] who were Afro-Jamaicans. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] As a child, Harris learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed in the Anglican Church , and served as an acolyte .
All of the facts, photos, and information about Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris's mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. An Indian immigrant, Gopalan was a biological researcher in California.
Of course, Harris soon became the first Black woman to be vice president, too. Although Harris’s parents eventually divorced in 1971, the two were an accomplished duo.
Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Jamaican descent, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan) [20] [21] and Oscar Joseph Harris. [22]
The vice president was born to Shyamala, an immigrant from India, and her father, Donald J. Harris, on Oct. 20, 1964. Three years later, they welcomed their second daughter, Maya , in 1967.
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
Harris being sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on January 20, 2021. Harris was sworn in as vice president on 11:40 a.m. on January 20, 2021, by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. [186] She is the United States' first woman vice president, first African-American vice president, and first Asian-American vice president.
But it's unclear whether we'll see the nominee's father, Donald J. Harris, in Chicago on Thursday. He is Kamala's only living parent, as her mother, Shyamala Gopalan died in 2009.