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Contents. Presidency of Barack Obama. For a chronological guide, see Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency. Barack Obama 's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017.
- Early Life
- Marriage
- Career Before Politics
- U.S. Senate
- 2008 Election
- First Term
- 2012 Reelection
- Second Term
- Facing Racism
- Key Speeches
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a White mother and a Black father. His mother Ann Dunham was an anthropologist, and his father Barack Obama Sr. was an economist. They met while studying at the University of Hawaii. The couple divorced in 1964 and Obama Sr. returned to his native Kenya to work for the government. He ...
Obama married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson—a lawyer from Chicago he met while he was working in the city—on October 3, 1992. Together they have two children, Malia and Sasha. In her 2018 memoir Becoming, Michelle Obamadescribed their marriage as "a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedenc...
Upon graduating from Columbia University, Barack Obama worked at Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonpartisan political organization. He then moved to Chicago and became director of the Developing Communities Project. After law school, Obama wrote his memoir, Dreams from My Father, which ...
In 2004, Obama launched a campaign for U.S. Senate. He positioned himself as a progressive and an opponent of the Iraq War. Obama won a decisive victory in November with 70% of the vote and was sworn in as a U.S. senator in January 2005. As a senator, Obama served on five committees and chaired the European Affairs subcommittee. He sponsored legisl...
Obama began his run for U.S. president in February 2007. He was nominated after a very close primary race against key opponent Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York and a future U.S. secretary of state, who was also the wife of former president Bill Clinton. Obama chose then-Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate. The two cam...
Within the first 100 days of his presidency, Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a piece of legislation designed to address the worst effects of the Great Recession. The Recovery Act was a stimulus package that injected about $800 billion into the economy through tax incentives for individuals and businesses, infrastruc...
Obama launched his campaign for reelection in 2011. His main challenger was Republican Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts. To make use of growing social networks like Facebook and Twitter, the Obama campaign hired a team of tech workers to build digital campaign tools. The election centered on domestic issues, including health care and...
During his second term as president, Obama focused on new challenges facing the country. In 2013, he organized a group to begin negotiations with Iran. An agreement was reached in 2015 in which the United States would lift sanctions and steps would be taken to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook El...
In A Promised Land, a 768-page autobiography (the first volume in a planned two-volume set) published in November 2020 and covering his early years through most of his first term as president, Obama wrote surprisingly little about the racism he personally faced growing up and during his political career—except as it was experienced by Michelle and ...
Obama gave a number of important speeches during his two terms as president, Mark Greenberg and David M. Tait reprinted some of the key speeches, in the book, "Obama: The Historic Presidency of Barack Obama: 2,920 Days": Victory speech:Obama told a crowd in Grant Park In Chicago on November 4, 2008, during his election night victory speech: "If the...
Jan 3, 2017 · 5 November. Barack Obama makes history by becoming the first African American to win the US presidency. With the promise of “hope and change”, he enters the White House as America is fighting ...
- Jason Rodrigues
Barack Hussein Obama II ( / bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə / ( listen); born August 4, 1961) [1] is an American politician and attorney. He was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African-American president in U.S. history.
- Barack Hussein Obama II, September 4, 1961 (age 62), Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
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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.
Google Classroom. Learn about the domestic and foreign policies of Barack Obama, president of the United States from 2008 to 2016. 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.
