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Barack Obama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barack Obama. 44th. President of the United States. Assumed office. January 2. Vice President. Joe Biden. Preceded by. George W. Bush. United States Senatorfrom Illinois.
In office. January 3, 2. November 1. 6, 2. Preceded by. Peter Fitzgerald.
Succeeded by. Roland Burris. Member of the Illinois Senatefrom the 1. In office. January 8, 1.
November 4, 2. 00. Preceded by. Alice Palmer. Succeeded by. Kwame Raoul.
Personal details. Born. Barack Hussein Obama II(1. August 4, 1. 96. 1 (age 5. Honolulu, Hawaii, U. S. Nationality. American.
Political party. Democratic. Spouse(s)Michelle Robinson(m. 1.
Children. Malia (b. Sasha (b. 2. 00. 1)Residence. White House, Washington, D. C. Kenwood, Chicago, U.
S.[1]Alma mater. Religion. Protestantism. Awards. Nobel Peace Prize(2.
Signature. Websitewww. Barack Hussein Obama II (USi; [2][3] born August 4, 1. American politician serving as the 4. President of the United States, the first. African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review.
He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School between 1. He served three terms representing the 1. District in the Illinois Senate from 1. Democratic primary for the United States House of Representatives in 2.
Bobby Rush. In 2. Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Partyprimary, his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his election to the Senate in November.
He began his presidential campaign in 2. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2. Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John Mc.
Cain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 2. Nine months after his inauguration, Obama was named the 2. Nobel Peace Prize laureate. During his first two years in office, Obama signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to the Great Recession in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2.
Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2. Other major domestic initiatives in his first term included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as "Obamacare"; the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2. In foreign policy, Obama ended U. S. military involvement in the Iraq War, increased U.
S. troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U. S. military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, and ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In January 2. 01. Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives as the Democratic Party lost a total of 6. Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2.
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2. Obama was reelected president in November 2. Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and was sworn in for a second term on January 2. During his second term, Obama has promoted domestic policies related to gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and has called for greater inclusiveness for LGBT Americans, while his administration has filed briefs which urged the Supreme Court to strike down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and state level same- sex marriage bans as unconstitutional. In foreign policy, Obama ordered U. S. military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by the Islamic State after the 2.
Iraq, continued the process of ending U. S. combat operations in Afghanistan, promoted discussions that led to the 2.
Paris Agreement on global climate change, brokered a nuclear deal with Iran, and normalized. U. S. relations with Cuba. Early life and career. Obama was born on August 4, 1.
Kapi. К»olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital (now Kapi. К»olani Medical Center for Women and Children) in Honolulu, Hawaii,[5][6][7] and would become the first President to have been born in Hawaii.[8] His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, born in Wichita, Kansas, was of mostly English ancestry.[9] His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. Obama's parents met in 1. Russian language class at the University of Hawai.
К»i at MДЃnoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.[1. The couple married in Wailuku on Maui on February 2, 1. August 1. 96. 1, Obama's mother moved with their newborn son to attend the University of Washington in Seattle for a year. During that time, Obama, Sr. Hawaii in June 1. Harvard University on a scholarship. Obama's parents divorced in March 1.
Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1. Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1. He died in an automobile accident in 1. In 1. 96. 3, Dunham met Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian East–West Center graduate student in geography at the University of Hawaii, and the couple were married on Molokai on March 1. After two one- year extensions of his J- 1 visa, Lolo returned to Indonesia in 1. Menteng Dalam neighborhood in the Tebet subdistrict of south Jakarta, then from 1. Menteng subdistrict of central Jakarta.[1.
From ages six to ten, Obama attended local Indonesian- language schools: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School for two years and Besuki Public School for one and a half years, supplemented by English- language Calvert School homeschooling by his mother.[1.
Obama returned to Honolulu in 1. Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and with the aid of a scholarship attended Punahou School, a private college preparatory school, from fifth grade until his graduation from high school in 1. Obama lived with his mother and sister in Hawaii for three years from 1. University of Hawaii.[2. Obama chose to stay in Hawaii with his grandparents for high school at Punahou when his mother and sister returned to Indonesia in 1.
His mother spent most of the next two decades in Indonesia, divorcing Lolo in 1. Ph. D degree in 1. Hawaii following treatment for ovarian cancer and uterine cancer.[2.
Of his early childhood, Obama recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind."[1. He described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.[2. Reflecting later on his years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered—to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect—became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."[2.
Obama has also written and talked about using alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind".[2. Obama was also a member of the "choom gang", a self- named group of friends that spent time together and occasionally smoked marijuana.[2. After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1. Occidental College.
In February 1. 98. Obama made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation's policy of apartheid.[3. In mid- 1. 98. 1, Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and half- sister Maya, and visited the families of college friends in Pakistan and India for three weeks.[3. Later in 1. 98. 1, he transferred as a junior to Columbia College, Columbia University, in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations[3. West 1. 09th Street.[3.
He graduated with a BA degree in 1. Business International Corporation,[3. New York Public Interest Research Group.[3. In 1. 98. 5, Obama was among the leaders of May Day efforts to bring attention to the New York City Subway system, which was in a bad condition at the time.
Obama traveled to several subway stations to get people to sign letters addressed to local officials and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and was photographed at the City College subway station holding a sign protesting against the system's condition.[3. Community organizer and Harvard Law School. Two years after graduating, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project, a church- based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale on Chicago's South Side.
He worked there as a community organizer from June 1. May 1. 98. 8.[3. 5][3. He helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[3. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[3. In mid- 1. 98. 8, he traveled for the first time in Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his paternal relatives for the first time.[4.
He returned to Kenya in 1. Г©e Michelle and his half- sister Auma,[4. August 2. 00. 6 for a visit to his father's birthplace, a village near Kisumu in rural western Kenya.[4.
Obama entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[4.
Laurence Tribe while at Harvard for two years.[4. During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1. Hopkins & Sutter in 1. After graduating with a JD degree magna cum laude[4. Harvard in 1. 99. Chicago.[4. 4] Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention[3.
The manuscript was published in mid- 1. Dreams from My Father.[4. University of Chicago Law School and civil rights attorney.