Barack Obama, Barack Ussein Obama, Obama, American President, US President Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II Born
August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current 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 was 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 in Chicago and taught
constitutional law at the University of Chicago
Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of
Representatives in 2000.
In 2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the
United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary, his keynote
address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his election to the Senate in
November. He began his presidential campaign
in 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential
nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
He was re-elected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney , and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013.