![]() ![]() ![]() “My parents,” Nikki Haley has said, “were more American than anyone I knew.” 6. Her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, also from the Punjab region, grew up in a wealthy family in a big house in the shadow of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikhs earned a law degree, highly unusual for a woman in that place and time and began in South Carolina by teaching sixth-grade social studies in the local public schools before starting a gift shop she turned into a million-dollar fashion boutique. In 1969, he landed in small, segregated Bamberg, S.C., to teach at Voorhees College, a nearby HBCU. Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, from the Punjab region of India, got a master’s degree in biology before moving to Canada to get a Ph.D. Nimrata Nikki Randhawa was born January 20, 1972, the third of four children of a Sikh family living in rural central South Carolina. She was (after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana) the second Indian American governor ever. ![]() She was (along with Susana Martinez of New Mexico) the first non-white and non-male governor in the history of the United States of America. ![]() She was the first person to be elected the governor of South Carolina who wasn’t a white man. She returned to that line in her new video, saying, with a smile, “It hurts them more when you’re wearing heels.” 1. “I kick with a smile,” she later told POLITICO. “I wear heels, but it’s not a fashion statement,” she once said. ![]()
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