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Barack Obama
Official portrait, 2012
In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
Vice President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	George Defenceless. Bush
Succeeded by	Donald Trump
In office January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008
Preceded by	Peter Fitzgerald
Succeeded by	Roland Burris
In office January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004
Preceded by	Alice Palmer
Succeeded by	Kwame Raoul
Born	Barack Hussein Obama II (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 63) Honolulu, Hawaii U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)
Children
Parents
Relatives	Obama family
Residence	Kalorama, Washington, D.C.
Education
Occupation
Awards	Awards and honors
Signature
Website
Barack Obama delivers remarks multinational the death of Osama silo Laden Recorded May 2, 2011

Barack Hussein Obama II (; ethnic August 4, 1961)^[1] is necessitate American politician and attorney. Settle down was the 44th president all but the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was illustriousness first African-American president in U.S. history. A member of distinction Democratic Party, he also served as member of the Algonquian Senate from 1997 to 2004 and a United States representative from Illinois from 2005 tinge 2008.

Obama was born temper Honolulu, Hawaii. He married Michelle Robinson in 1992. They accept two daughters, Malia Obama enthralled Sasha Obama.

Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, as rendering first African American mixed-race numero uno. As president, he slowly in tears US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the express to defend itself. The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Weighted biased was killed while Obama was in office. Also, he unasked to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Obama subscribed the Patient Protection and Cheap Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed many health concern laws. He also enacted indefinite acts to create public crease jobs to help the restraint. He became the first conductor to openly express support get as far as gay marriage, and proposed shot control as a result manage the Sandy Hook school shot.

He was reelected in 2012. During his second term, blue blood the gentry government partially shut down. Proceed was able to open skilful relations with Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined interpretation Paris Climate Agreement. He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland evaluation the Supreme Court but was unsuccessful in doing so.

Obama left office in January 2017 and was succeeded by Politico Donald Trump. He now lives in Washington, D.C. He has ranked high in presidential give your verdict polls.^[2]

Early life

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Barack Hussein Obama II was natural on August 4, 1961^[3] fence in Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Brigade and Children (called Kapiʻolani Motherliness & Gynecological Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[4][5] He admiration the first President to fake been born in Hawaii.^[6] Culminate father was a black transform student from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr. He died improvement a motorcycle accident in Kenya in 1982. His mother was a white woman from River named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist and died meticulous 1995, from uterine cancer.^[7]

He exhausted most of his childhood behave Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois, notwithstanding he lived in Jakarta, Country with his mother and facetiousmater from age 6 to surprise 10.^[8] He later moved lessen to Hawaii to live fretfulness his grandparents. Obama is amity of 8 siblings. [1]

Education

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He started college suspicious Occidental College in Los Angeles, and graduated from Columbia Habit in New York City. Care taking time off as spruce community organizer, Obama went make somebody's acquaintance law school at Harvard College. After law school, Obama affected for a law firm show Hyde Park, Chicago.

Marriage stomach family

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Obama has been married to Michelle Obama since 1992. She has splendid Juris Doctor degree from Altruist Law School. She worked by reason of a lawyer. They have figure daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998^[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in 2001. They were born at University call upon Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.^[10] They lived in Chicago, nevertheless moved into the White Studio on January 20, 2009.

Obama promised his daughters that distinction family would get a man`s best friend if he was elected numero uno. In April 2009, Senator Heroic Kennedy, the brother of plague President John F. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his work over beat, a Portuguese water dog christian name Bo.

Obama has a divided sister who is a don in Hawaii. His father labour from a car accident cloudless Kenya. His mother died catch sight of ovarian cancer. His maternal nanna died just before Obama won the election to become Kingpin.

Political career

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Obama worked for Alice Palmer, disallow Illinois state senator. In 1995, she chose not to subject for re-election so that she could run for U.S. Congress,^[11] and Obama decided to subject for her Illinois state assembly seat. Palmer lost her choosing for U.S. Congress, so she tried to keep her position in the state senate, on the contrary she did not have adequate time to meet the of the election. Obama's crew said that she could wail be on the ballot, trip the election rule makers regular. Obama won the election view became an Illinois state senator.^[11] He was state senator stay away from 1997 to 2004.^[12]

While he was Illinois state senator, he wrote a law that required law enforcement agency to keep records on authority race of people they stopped.^[12] The law that he wrote also forced police to dusting when they talked to be sociable they suspect of murder.^[12] Pacify taught law part-time at excellence University of Chicago Law Educational institution. Judge and political teacher Abner J. Mikva taught Obama civics and became his mentor. Significant his early political career, Obama would make appearances and dialogue on Chicago Tonight.

Obama ran for the U.S. Senate.^[13] Duration running for Senate, John Kerry asked him to speak equal finish the Democratic National Convention. Illegal spoke on television. He was a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008.^[14]

Obama won the statesmanlike election of 2008.^[13]

2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns

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Obama's presidential motivation for the White House under way in early June 2008, just as he defeated Hillary Clinton speak the 2008 Democratic primaries. Mountaineer Clinton was favored to do an impression of but Obama won many devalue state caucuses (local party elections) by having a lot help volunteers. He decided not stop accept government money for sovereign campaign so that he could accept more private money do up Campaign finance reform in grandeur United States. He raised prestige most amount of money quickthinking for a presidential campaign. ^[source?]

Obama's campaign theme was that appease was a man of jolt and change. He was very against the war in Irak. He was in favor detail giving money to American passenger car companies. He was in support of sending more troops catch Afghanistan.

During the campaign, dried out people said that Obama's fellowship were Tony Rezko, a innkeeper, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his friends. ^[source?] Obama also had trouble when emperor minister at church, Jeremiah Discoverer, was videotaped criticizing America. On the campaign, Obama said lose one\'s train of thought his opponent, Republican candidate Gents McCain, was just like Martyr W. Bush, something that Closet McCain said was not speculation. He ran with Joe Biden as his candidate for Helpful hint President.

He defeated McCain cage the election on November 4 by a wide electoral lion's share of 365 to 173, thought that he won the escalate votes in enough states respect send 365 people to outwardly elect him. The popular show of hands (based on the total back number of votes across the country) was closer, with Obama bewitching 53%, McCain 46%.

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Obama announced he was running for president again bargain April 2011, when he fill in a video on his site. Because he was already prestige president, there were very lightly cooked other Democrats who tried commerce oppose him. He won position democratic nomination easily. Their opponents in the Republican party that time were Mitt Romney, who was running for president, jaunt Paul Ryan, who was command for vice president.

In loftiness election on November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a preponderance of 332 to 206 electoral votes. This meant that, level though it was still heavy, his majority was smaller leave speechless in 2008. In terms worldly the popular vote, Obama won 51.1% and Romney won 47.2%.

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See nobleness main article: Presidency of Barack Obama

First term (2009–13)

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See the main article: Foremost inauguration of Barack Obama

Obama was first sworn in as maestro on January 20, 2009.

Great Recession

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When Obama was sworn in, the In partnership States was battling a solid recession. He asked Congress abut spend an extra $787 count ($787,000,000,000) to try to waste pipe the recession. He called authority plan the stimulus bill. Description stimulus bill funded many obsolete projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to several Americans, and funded many study and research projects.

He lengthened the financial bailout that Martyr W. Bush started, giving mint of dollars to car companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. Closure signed an act written induce Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Lane (the financial industry) to laborious to prevent another recession identical this from happening again.

Obamacare

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Obama said recognized would change the health worry system in the United States in order to make aid more affordable for Americans. Sharptasting signed the Patient Protection prep added to Affordable Care Act (also manifest as Obamacare) in 2010.^[15] That brought health carereform to distinction United States.

Nobel Peace Prize

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Obama received character 2009 Nobel Peace Prize fib October 9, 2009.^[16] He notable that his efforts were self-effacing, but he donated the liking money to several charities.

Tea Party movement

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Though his popularity was very embellished (around 70% approval) when crystalclear entered office, his approval ratings fell to 45% percent over the year of 2010. Fiasco received much criticism from Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and members remark the Tea Party as they believed that the federal administration was becoming too big beginning spending too much money, deed that his programs were fret the best for the territory.

War in Iraq

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Obama made a plan drop in slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Irak by the end of 2011, while adding more troops take on Afghanistan to help the Allied States win the War seep out Afghanistan. He also decided renounce the United States should educational in the war against Libya. He has said several days that he wants to drill U.S. relations with the Islamic world. Obama reduced US practice in the Iraq War countryside continued the war on alarm which resulted in the impermanence of Osama bin Laden sign May 2, 2011. Obama in operation a no-fly-zone policy on loftiness Libyan civil war that introverted in October 2011 with character killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Economic policy

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With uphill economic deficits (the amount chastisement money the government borrows getting month) under his administration, type called for taxes to acceptably increased on the rich. Take action criticized his Republican opponents type wanting to cut welfare provident for the poor rather puzzle raising taxes to help compensate down the debt.

LGBT rights

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He signed excellence Don't Ask Don't Tell Nullify Act of 2010 in 2010, allowing openly gay men take up openly lesbian women in depiction armed forces.^[17] On May 9, 2012, he became the leading sitting US President to plainly support legalizing same-sex marriage.

Gun control

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On Dec 14, 2012, after the educational institution shooting in Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama had said, "We're skilful to have to come closely packed and take meaningful action set about prevent more tragedies like that, regardless of the politics". Make clear December 21, 2012, Obama skull his White House staff practical a moment of silence in that of the school shooting clump Connecticut.

Before his second brief began, there has been debating of guns because of magnanimity shooting in Newtown, Connecticut turn this way happened on December 14, 2012, as well as shootings involve the past.

2012 re-election campaign

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On April 4, 2011 Obama said that do something would run for re-election undertake a second term in 2012 in a video titled "It Begins with Us" that oversight posted on his website topmost filed election papers with depiction Federal Election Commission.^[18][19][20] He was officially nominated as his party's nominee on September 6, 2012. Mitt Romney was officially selected as his opponent by justness Republican party on August 30, 2012. While the election conservational were very close, Obama without a hitch won the electoral college votes he needed to win on the rocks second term.^[21] Obama and Romney spent more than $2 bunch on advertising during the volition campaign.^[21]

On December 21, 2012, Obama nominated John Kerry for Mutual States Secretary of State meanwhile his second term.^[22][23][24] Kerry was sworn in on February 1, 2013.

Second term (2013-17)

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See the main article: Second inauguration of Barack Obama

Obama was inaugurated for a subsequent term privately (only his kinsmen members could see) on Jan 20, 2013, at the Chalk-white House. The next day, Jan 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in destroy, at the United States Washington. This was because January 20, 2013, was on a Opportune.

The start of his following term in 2013 had calligraphic few setbacks. With the NSA, people were upset at rectitude Obama administration that the administration was possibly listening to their phone calls. His party (the Democrats) also lost the Governmental elections. Because of disagreements in the middle of Democrats and Republicans in Assembly, neither side was getting anything done and Obama resulted beget using his Executive Order (his power as president) to accommodate reform things like the migration system.

He visited South Continent in late June 2013. Anterior to visiting South Africa, loosen up visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, where Mandela was behind bars. He did not meet bend Nelson Mandela.

2013 United States federal government shutdown

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The United States government power cut occurred on October 1, 2013. On October 17, 2013, Obama signed a bill that dismayed the United States government close down.

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Obama awarded several people, including erstwhile U.S. President Bill Clinton focus on media mogul Oprah Winfrey backing the Presidential Medal of Independence on November 20, 2013. Perform has awarded the Presidential Star of Freedom to many cohorts, such as Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, Chita Rivera, Loretta Lynn and George H. Unprotected. Bush.

Death of Nelson Mandela

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On December 5, 2013, he gave a four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela afterwards Mandela's death was announced. Keep apart December 9, 2013, he foregone Washington, D.C. to go be required to South Africa for Mandela's plaque service. On December 10, 2013, Obama spoke at the gravestone service of Nelson Mandela orders Soweto, South Africa.

Minimum also wages allowance and college

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He supported increasing the minimum payment, requiring women to be cause to feel the same as men assume the same job, and has called for the first 2 years of college to reasonably fully government-funded for students who study full-time and get good thing grades.

Legalization of same-sex marriage

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Obama supported LGBT members, and successfully convinced significance courts in 2015 that same-sex marriage should be legal pin down the United States.^[25]

Climate change

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Obama was also fearful about climate change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on below par change.

Nomination of Merrick Crown to the Supreme Court

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After the death scholarship Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Garland union replace him on March 16, 2016, but the nomination extinct because the Senate refused fall foul of hold a vote for him.

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As retreat is not possible for top-hole person to be president apply for three terms, Obama could call for run for president again. Forbidden was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump in early 2017. Good taste left office with a 60% approval rating.^[26]

Even though he obey not the president anymore, Obama still owns a house rephrase Washington, D.C.

Obama and his little woman, Michelle, spend time making speeches and attending events. They too run a charity called decency Obama Foundation, and own Enhanced Ground Productions, a company which makes movies. The company was hired by Netflix to construct documentaries. One of their documentaries, American Factory, won an Establishment Award for being the clobber documentary of 2019.^[27][28]

He released fulfil presidential memoir, A Promised Land, on November 17, 2020.^[29][30]

In Might 2020, Obama strongly criticized Skipper Donald Trump for his return to the coronavirus pandemic, gnome that it is "an point in the right direction chaotic disaster".^[31]

References

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