Barack Hussein Obama

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Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961 and

is the 44th and current President of the United States
of America. He is the first ever African-American to
hold the office.
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Barack previously served as a Senator from Illinois,

Chicago from January 2005 until he resigned in 2008,
following his presidential election. His presidential
campaign began in February 2007, and after a close
campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential
primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his
party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election,
he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was
inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine
months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace
Prize laureate.
Barack Obama is a graduate of Columbia University
and Harvard Law School, where he was president of
the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a civil rights
attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at
the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to
2004.

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Life
Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological
Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the first President to
have been born in Hawaii. His mother Stanley Ann Dunham,
was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was of mostly English ancestry, along with Scottish, Irish, German and Swiss. His
father, Barack Obama Sr., was from Nyang'oma Kogelo,
Nyanza Province, Kenya.
Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979
to attend college where he studied liberal arts. Then later
in 1981, he transferred to Columbia University in New York
City, where he majored in political science with a specialty
in international relations and graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts in 1983. In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law
School and graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude in 1991.
Following the next twelve years, Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a Lecturer from 1992 to
1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004 - teaching constitutional law.
In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U.S. Senate race. He created a campaign
committee, began raising funds and also lined up a political

media consultant, and in January 2003, formally

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announced his candidacy. In the November 2004 general election, Obama won with 70 percent of the vote
and was sworn in as a senator on January 3, 2005.
On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy
for President of the United States in front of the Old
State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. Obama
emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War,
increasing energy independence, and providing universal
health care, in a campaign that projected themes of
"hope" and "change" which not only captured America's
attention, but had the world keenly following the US
presidential election.
After two years of rigorous campaigning, Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the 44th President of the
United States on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event
held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of
the four-year term of Barack Obama as President and
Joe Biden as Vice President. Based on the combined attendance numbers, television viewership, and Internet
traffic, it was among the most-observed events ever by
the global audience.
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