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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States and the country’s first African American chief executive on January 20, 2009, having embraced the audacious hope of promoting a more-inclusive America, providing affordable health care for all of its ...
Overview. Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States and the first African American president in US history. He was elected in 2008 and served two terms. Obama came into office during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and authorized a massive economic stimulus package that mitigated the worst effects of the ...
It was in this highly polarized environment that Obama and the Democrats attempted to enact health care insurance reform. Barack Obama - 44th President, Political Career, Legacy: In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois Senate, where, most notably, he helped pass legislation that tightened campaign finance regulations, expanded health care to ...
When President Obama left office on January 20, 2017, his impact and legacy were unclear. He will always be the first African American president in US history, and his administration was notable for its stability. With Republicans in control of both the presidency and the Congress in 2017, however, some of Obama’s most notable achievements ...
Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. With a father from Kenya and a mother from ...
Inauguration. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. He was the first African American President in U.S. history. Obama emerged as an unlikely candidate during the 2008 presidential campaign. He was born and raised in Hawaii.
Barack Obama, in full Barack Hussein Obama II, (born Aug. 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.), 44th president of the U.S. (2009–17). Obama graduated from Columbia University (1983) and Harvard Law School (1991), where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. He moved to Chicago, where he served as a ...
