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Barack Obama is the first African American president of the United States. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and American mother. Obama's parents divorced when he was young, and he was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia by his mother and grandparents. He attended Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and president in 2008, becoming the first African American U.S. president.

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Barack Obama is the first African American president of the United States. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and American mother. Obama's parents divorced when he was young, and he was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia by his mother and grandparents. He attended Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and president in 2008, becoming the first African American U.S. president.

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President Barack Obama

Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961 -) is the 44th President of the


United States of America. He was elected President on November 4, 2008,
as a Democrat. His Vice-President running mate was Joseph Biden. Barack
Obama is the first African-American president of the USA.
Obama was born in Hawaii. His father, also called Barack Obama,
was a college student from Kogelo, a village in western Kenya, a country in
Africa. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was from Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas. They met when they were both students at the University of Hawaii.
His parents divorced in 1964, and his mother and maternal grandparents
raised Barack. In 1967, Obama's mother married Lolo Soetoro, and moved
the family to Indonesia. His half sister, Maya Soetoro, was born on Aug. 15,
1970. In 1971, Obama moved back to Hawaii to go to school, living with his
grandparents. That year, Obama's father visited him in Hawaii; Barack
would never see his father again.
After graduating high school in 1979, Obama attended Occidental
College in Los Angeles, California. After two years, Obama transferred to
Columbia University (in New York, New York), graduating in 1983 with a
bachelor's degree in Political Science. His father had died the previous year
(1982) in a car accident in Nairobi, Kenya.
In 1985, Obama moved to Chicago, Illinois, and worked as a
community organizer, helping people improve their lives and become voters.
In 1987, Obama travelled to Kenya, visiting his father's home town and
meeting many of his relatives.
The next year, 1988, Obama enrolled at Harvard Law school in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was elected the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review (a very prestigious magazine about
law, edited by Harvard law students) in 1990, and
graduated in 1991.
After graduating from law school, Obama
moved back to Chicago, got married and entered
politics. Michelle Robinson (an attorney) and Obama
married in 1992; they have two daughters, Malia and
Sasha. Obama's mother died of cancer in 1995.
Obama taught constitutional law at the University of
Chicago from 1992 until 2004. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in
1996, 1998, and 2002 (he lost a primary election for Congress in 2000).
Obama 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).
In the summer of 2008, Obama became the first African-American to
be the presidential candidate of a major political party (the Democrats). On
November 4, 2008, Obama won the general election, defeating John McCain
(a Republican) to become the 44th President of the United States. His
presidential inauguration was on January 20, 2009. Obama won the Nobel
Peace Prize in October, 2009.

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