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Celebrity birth data

Karen Bass

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Karen Bass、Karen Ruth Bass、凱倫·巴斯

Birth data

Gender
Female
Birth date
October 3, 1953
Birth time
02:27（UTC-08:00）
As recorded: 02:27 (= 02:27 AM )
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, United StatesAs recorded: Los Angeles, California, 34n03, 118w15
Country / region
United States
Reliability
AABirth record or official document

Biography

Karen Bass (full name Karen Ruth Bass) is an American Democratic politician and social worker who has served as mayor of Los Angeles since 2022.

She represented the 47th district in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010 and was elected Speaker of the Assembly in 2008, becoming the first African American woman in U.S. history to lead a state legislative chamber. In 2010 she received the Profile in Courage Award for her leadership during the Great Recession.

From 2011 to 2022 she served in the U.S. House of Representatives, first for California's 33rd congressional district and, after redistricting following her first term, for the 37th district, which covers several areas south and west of downtown Los Angeles. In November 2018 she was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and she also chaired the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa, global health, global human rights and international organizations, as well as the Judiciary subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security.

She won the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election and was sworn in as the city's 43rd mayor on December 11, 2022, with Vice President Kamala Harris administering the oath.

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