Washington, November 8: With Joe Biden defeating Donald Trump in the hotly-contested presidential election, Kamala Harris is set to슬롯 머신 사이트 추천be America's next Vice President with many firsts. Scripting history, Kamala Harris is슬롯 머신 사이트 추천the first-ever woman to be elected as Vice President of America. Also, Kamala Harris will be the first슬롯 머신 사이트 추천person of Indian origin to be elected as US Vice President. Her father Donald Harris is a retired leftist Stanford economics professor from Jamaica. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan,슬롯 머신 사이트 추천biomedical scientist, was born in India's Chennai. But, Kamala Harris is not the first person of colour to hold the position. It was슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Charles Curtis.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Kamala Harris Dials Joe Biden, Says 'We Did It'; All About The First Woman and 'The First Woman of Colour' to Become US Vice President.

Celebrating the victory of Kamala Harris, many called her as the first person of colour to be elected to serve as Vice President. It is factually wrong.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천The first person of colour who served as Vice President of the United States was Charles Curtis.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Charles Curtis, who had슬롯 머신 사이트 추천significant Native American ancestry,슬롯 머신 사이트 추천served as the 31st Vice President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 when슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Herbert Hoover was the US President.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Kamala Harris' Ancestral Village in Tamil Nadu Celebrates Her Victory with Special Rangoli.

Charles Curtis Was슬롯 머신 사이트 추천The First Person of Colour to be Elected as US Vice President:

The first person enrolled in a Native American tribe to be elected to such high office, Curtis decorated his office with Native American artefacts and posed for pictures by wearing Indian headdresses. Curtis, a슬롯 머신 사이트 추천member of the Kaw Nation, was a Republican. He was twice elected to the US House of Representatives and four times to the Senate. He was first and the only슬롯 머신 사이트 추천highest-ranking enrolled Native American ever to serve in the US government.

Despite being a native America, Curtis believed in indigenous assimilation, according to a . The Curtis Act of 1898슬롯 머신 사이트 추천abolished Native American self-government and communal land, and allowed non-indigenous persons to buy the surplus land.

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