Biography Of Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II, born August 4, 1961, is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned following his 2008 election to the presidency. He was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer in Chicago prior to earning his law degree, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.
As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Stanley Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas and Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married on February 2, 1961. Obama's parents separated when Obama was two years old, and they divorced in 1964. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.
Timeline Of President Barack Obama
"President Barack Obama's" Biography:
1961 - at the age of 25 Barack Obama Senior and Ann Dunham married in Honolulu, Hawaii. August 4,1961, Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Hawaii.
1963- Barack Obama senior is accepted at Harvard University. He leaves his family and child to live in Massachusetts.
1967 - Ann Dunham aged 25 at the time meets Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia at the University of Hawaii, and later on they decide to get married the same year. They also decided to move to Lolo's hometown in Jakarta indonesia while the lttle Obama goes to school there in the following few years.
1971 - Just Barack Obama, mother was left in Indonesia and he decides to live with his grandparents in the original Obama birthplace (in Hawaii) to attend the prestigious Punahou School.
1979 - Obama graduates from Punahou School and moves to Los Angeles to study college (liberal arts) at Occidental College
1981 - Obama enrolls in Columbia University to take Political Science. Hes presently 20 at this time, and is inhabiting in new york.
1983 - He begins working at Business International Corporation after graduation from Columbia.
1985 - Now 24 years old, he makes up one's mind to displace to Chicago. He becomes a director of DCP, or Developing Communities Project.
1988 - He moves back to Massachusetts and embark on studying at Harvard Law school. He becomes the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review and afterwards on became the president of the Harvard Law Review. He also worked at various Chicago law firms where he met his wife Michelle.
1991 - Now 30 years old, graduates with Juris Doctor, magna cum laude from Harvard Law school. He is tendered a fellowship at the University of Chicago Law school. During this year Obama marries Michelle.
1992 - Now teaching Constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law school. During this time he served as civil rights litigation lawyer while serving in the board of directors for assorted philanthropy organizations.
1995 - He releases his first volume, Dreams of my father.
1996 - He is appointed to the Illinois State Senate. He's currently 35 years old at the time.
2004 - Makes-up his mind to run for the U.S. Senate and gained over a 52% of the votes.
2005- He is pledged to the US Senate. He was 44 years old at this time.
2006 - His volume, The Audacity of Hope gets published.
2008 - Announces his candidacy for president of the United States, wins the party nomination versus Hillary Clinton. Eventually he wins the 44th US presidential electoral battle constituting him the 1st Black-American president of the United States of America.
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