Sharice Lynnette Davids is an American attorney, former mixed martial artist, and politician serving as the US representative from since 2019.
29 Facts About Sharice Davids
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Sharice Davids is the first openly LGBT Native American elected to the US Congress, the first openly lesbian person elected to the US Congress from Kansas, and one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress, along with Deb Haaland of New Mexico.
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Sharice Davids defeated incumbent Kevin Yoder in the 2018 election.
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Sharice Davids is the second Native American to represent Kansas in Congress, after Charles Curtis, who was Herbert Hoover's vice president.
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Sharice Davids was born on May 22,1980, in Frankfurt, West Germany.
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Sharice Davids is a member of the Ho-Chunk people, and an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.
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Sharice Davids's maternal grandfather, Fredrick J Davids, a United States Army veteran, was born into the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band, in Oneida, Wisconsin.
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Sharice Davids was raised by her single mother, Crystal Herriage, who served in the US Army.
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Sharice Davids earned her Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 2010.
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Sharice Davids began competing in mixed martial arts as an amateur in 2006, and went professional in 2013.
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Sharice Davids tried out for The Ultimate Fighter but did not make it onto the show, leading her to shift her focus away from MMA to travel the US and live on Native American reservations to work with the communities on economic and community development programs.
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Sharice Davids began her legal career at SNR Denton in 2010.
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Sharice Davids later directed community and economic development for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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In 2016, Sharice Davids worked as a White House Fellow in the Department of Transportation during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.
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In 2018, Sharice Davids ran for the United States House of Representatives in Kansas's 3rd congressional district.
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Kansas City NPR member station KCUR fact-checked the claims that incumbent Representative Kevin Yoder and Sharice Davids made in separate interviews on its station, and gave Yoder an "F".
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Sharice Davids said that she supported single-payer health care, but it could not be enacted with Republicans in the White House.
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Sharice Davids is only the second Democrat to represent what is the 3rd since 1963.
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In 2020, Sharice Davids was unopposed in the Democratic primary, winning 74,437 votes.
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Sharice Davids faced the Republican nominee, Cerner Corporation executive and former Kansas Republican Party chairwoman Amanda Adkins, in the general election.
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In 2022, Sharice Davids ran for reelection in the newly drawn 3rd district.
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Sharice Davids's margin was almost identical to her 2020 margin.
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On December 18,2019, Sharice Davids voted to impeach President Donald Trump and was the only person representing Kansas to do so.
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In March 2020, Sharice Davids quarantined herself for possible exposure to coronavirus.
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Sharice Davids was named a vice-chair of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
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Sharice Davids voted for the America COMPETES Act of 2022, which passed on a party-line vote.
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Sharice Davids added an amendment to the legislation that would include small and medium-sized manufacturers in a $500 million pilot program for producing personal protective equipment and medical supplies.
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Sharice Davids was named to the 2021 Fast Company Queer 50 list.
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Sharice Davids is among the few US representatives not to identify with any religion.