The Vice President of the United States & the Democratic candidate for the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election is the 1st woman, 1st South Asian, 1st Black, & second person of color (after Charles Curtis, who was 5/8 White & 3/8 American Indian) vice president.
Her mother was a Tamil immigrant from Madras, India, & her father was a Jamaican immigrant from the St. Ann's Parish in Jamaica.
Despite her father self-identifying as Afro-Jamaican, Her father is actually 25% Irish, 18.75% Scottish, & 56.25% Afro-Jamaican (including 3.125% Igbo).
The paternal grandmother of Vice President Harris was 3/4 Afro-Jamaican & 1/4 Irish, her grandmother's paternal grandfather was Patrick Finnegan, who was from County Galaway.
The paternal grandfather of Vice President Harris was 3/8 Scottish, 1/4 Irish, & 3/8 Afro-Jamaican (including 1/8 Igbo, as well as free people of color), her grandfather's paternal grandmother was born in Jamaica to two Scottish immigrant parents from Fife, & her grandfather also had another Scottish great-grandmother (the mother of the paternal grandfather of her paternal grandfather), her paternal grandfather was the the great-grandson of a Irish plantation owner who fathered both the mother & father of her paternal grandfather's mother, the Irish plantation owner was from County Antrim, & his name was Hamilton Brown, & he fathered a son with a Igbo slave who was actually born in Ireland but was brought to Jamaica when slavery was banned in Great Britain, that son married his paternal half sister & had the great-grandmother of Vice President Harris.
So, the Ethnic Ancestry of Vice President Kamala Harris is approximately.
- 50% Tamil
- 28.125% Afro-Jamaican (including 1.5625% Igbo)
- 12.5% Irish
- 9.375% Scottish
