Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff.
New York:
With the historic election victory of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, her husband Douglas Emhoff also scripted the story as he will be the first “ second gentleman ” – the first male spouse of a Vice President in the United States. when she is sworn in in January.
The wife of an American president is addressed as first lady while that of the vice president as second lady. America has never had a female president and vice president in its history before, so it remains to be seen what official title – “Second Gentleman, Second Husband” – will be given to the first male spouse of an elected leader.
So while Harris’s election as the next U.S. Vice President is groundbreaking because it brings to the office a litany of firsts – she will be the first woman, the first black woman, the first woman of Indian descent, and the first daughter of immigrants to be sworn in as vice-president, her husband will also make history in his own way.
Harris is married to Emhoff, 56, a successful entertainment lawyer, who has been a strong and supportive presence for Harris during the election campaign.
“So proud of you,” Emhoff tweeted on Saturday, with a photo of him and Harris hugging each other as TV channels called the presidential race for Biden and Harris.
According to a CNN report, Emhoff has been out of the limelight, often seen backstage or on the edge of the crowd at the Harris events, sporting a “Kamala” t-shirt.
Emhoff gained attention last year when he rushed onto the stage to protect Harris after a protester got close enough to the senator to grab his microphone, CNN said.
He also firmly stood up for Harris when Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, retweeted a racist lie that Harris is not a black American because his parents immigrated from Jamaica and India.
Harris often talks about how she and Emhoff met after being set up on a blind date in 2013 by Harris’ best friend when she was California attorney general. Emhoff has two children Cole and Ella from a previous marriage.
Emhoff proposed to Harris in 2014 and the two tied the knot at the Santa Barbara courthouse later that year in a ceremony chaired by Harris’s sister, Maya.
“We met, fell madly in love (we still are), we got married and continue to live very happily ever after,” he tweeted early last year.
“I love my husband. He’s funny, he’s nice, he’s patient, he loves my cooking. He’s just a really great guy,” Harris told NowThis in an interview last year.
During the election campaign, Harris repeatedly said that she adored being “Momala” to her stepchildren, who coined the term as they preferred to “mother-in-law.”
“For my brother and I, you will always be ‘Momala’, the greatest mother-in-law in the world,” Ella said in a video featuring Harris at the Democratic National Convention. “You are a rock, not just to our father, but to three generations of our great blended family.”
“My family means everything to me. And I’ve had a lot of titles in my career, and sure, ‘Vice President’ will be great, but ‘Momala’ will always be the one that matters the most,” Harris said. stated in his first speech after Biden chose her to run with him in the White House.
USA Today said in a report that Emhoff has dealt with high-profile cases involving production companies, a former NFL athlete and a sports nutrition company, among others.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he moved with his family to Southern California from New Jersey as a teenager. He graduated from California State University at Northridge in 1987 and continued his education at the Gould School of Law at USC, where he received his law degree in 1990.
The USA Today report added that at an “Lawyers for Biden” event, Emhoff said he would focus on “access to justice” as an issue while being the second gentleman.
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