Barack Obama
Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of
the United States of America. He was first elected President on November4,
2008. He ran as a Democrat against the Republican John McCain. His Vice-President
is Joseph Biden. Barack Obama is the first African-American president of the USA.
Obama was elected for a second term in 2012.
Obama was born on
August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, also named Barack Obama, was from Kogelo, a small village in Kenya, Africa; his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was from Kansas. Obama was raised
by his single mother and his maternal grandparents.
Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983
with a degree in political science. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois, and worked as a community organizer. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he was the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review (a prestigious magazine about law, edited
by Harvard law students). He moved back to Chicago and married Michelle Robinson in 1992; they have two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, 1998, and 2002 (he
lost a primary bid for the House of Representatives in 2000). He was elected to
the US Senate in 2004 (Dem-IL). Obama has written two books, Dreams from My Father (1995) and The Audacity of Hope
(2006).
