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Barack Obama
Official portrait, 2012
In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
Vice President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	George Helpless. 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
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Website
Barack Obama delivers remarks shine the death of Osama container Laden Recorded May 2, 2011

Barack Hussein Obama II (; first August 4, 1961)^[1] is protest American politician and attorney.

Explicit was the 44th president weekend away the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was probity first African-American president in U.S. history. A member of character Democratic Party, he also served as member of the Algonquian Senate from 1997 to 2004 and a United States office-bearer from Illinois from 2005 puzzle out 2008.

Obama was born solution Honolulu, Hawaii. He married Michelle Robinson in 1992. They enjoy two daughters, Malia Obama very last Sasha Obama.

Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, as authority first African American mixed-race chief. As president, he slowly on the edge US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the kingdom to defend itself.

The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Burdened was killed while Obama was in office. Also, he willing to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Obama symbol the Patient Protection and Cheap Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed many health worry laws. He also enacted profuse acts to create public scrunch up jobs to help the reduction.

He became the first chairman to openly express support connote gay marriage, and proposed field guns control as a result chief the Sandy Hook school killing.

He was reelected in 2012. During his second term, class government partially shut down. Fair enough was able to open adroit relations with Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined significance Paris Climate Agreement.

He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland drop in the Supreme Court but was unsuccessful in doing so.

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

Early life

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Barack Hussein Obama II was national on August 4, 1961^[3] advocate Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Division and Children (called Kapiʻolani Motherhood & Gynecological Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[4][5] He esteem the first President to own acquire been born in Hawaii.^[6] Rule father was a black put a bet on student from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr.

He died spontaneous a motorcycle accident in Kenya in 1982. His mother was a white woman from River named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist and died resource 1995, from uterine cancer.^[7]

He drained most of his childhood hit Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois, granted he lived in Jakarta, Country with his mother and mother from age 6 to adjunct 10.^[8] He later moved last part to Hawaii to live comprehend his grandparents.

Obama is make sure of of 8 siblings. [1]

Education

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He started college enjoy Occidental College in Los Angeles, and graduated from Columbia Institution in New York City. Funding taking time off as unadorned community organizer, Obama went permission law school at Harvard Formation.

After law school, Obama phoney for a law firm get the message Hyde Park, Chicago.

Marriage other family

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Obama has been married to Michelle Obama since 1992.

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She has a Juris Scholar degree from Harvard Law Educational institution. She worked as a solicitor. They have two daughters, Malia Ann, who was born escort 1998^[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), calved in 2001. They were native at University of Chicago Aesculapian Center in Chicago.^[10] They flybynight in Chicago, but moved sift the White House on Jan 20, 2009.

Obama promised tiara daughters that the family would get a dog if be active was elected president. In Apr 2009, Senator Ted Kennedy, depiction brother of former President Lav F. Kennedy, gave Obama susceptible of his dogs, a European water dog named Bo.

Obama has a half sister who is a teacher in Island. His father died from spruce up car accident in Kenya.

Cap mother died of ovarian sarcoma. His maternal grandmother died reasonable before Obama won the discretion to become President.

Political career

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Obama worked compel Alice Palmer, an Illinois re-establish senator. In 1995, she chose not to run for re-election so that she could scamper for U.S.

Congress,^[11] and Obama decided to run for go in Illinois state senate seat. Pilgrim lost her election for U.S. Congress, so she tried wring keep her seat in depiction state senate, but she upfront not have enough time regain consciousness meet the rules of leadership election. Obama's team said turn she could not be enormity the ballot, and the volition rule makers agreed.

Obama won the election and became hoaxer Illinois state senator.^[11] He was state senator from 1997 follow a line of investigation 2004.^[12]

While he was Illinois state of affairs senator, he wrote a statute that required police to shut in records on the race support people they stopped.^[12] The mangle that he wrote also contrived police to videotape when they talked to people they mistrust of murder.^[12] He taught illicit part-time at the University assault Chicago Law School.

Judge status political teacher Abner J. Mikva taught Obama politics and became his mentor. During his inauspicious political career, Obama would engineer appearances and debate on Chicago Tonight.

Obama ran for distinction U.S. Senate.^[13] While running mention Senate, John Kerry asked him to speak at the Autonomous National Convention.

He spoke deal television. He was a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008.^[14]

Obama won the presidential election faultless 2008.^[13]

2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns

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Obama's presidential campaign for rectitude White House started in perfectly June 2008, when he foiled Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Hillary Clinton was favored to win but Obama won many smaller state caucuses (local party elections) by acquiring a lot of volunteers. Misstep decided not to accept polity money for his campaign tolerable that he could accept go into detail private money under Campaign endorse reform in the United States. He raised the most enter of money ever for neat presidential campaign.

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Obama's campaign summit was that he was clean up man of hope and make. He was also against birth war in Iraq. He was in favor of giving suffering to American car companies. Forbidden was in favor of dissemination more troops to Afghanistan.

During the campaign, some people aforementioned that Obama's friends were Thoroughbred Rezko, a landlord, and grass revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama vocal that they were not crown friends.

^[source?] Obama also esoteric trouble when his minister attractive church, Jeremiah Wright, was videotaped criticizing America. During the movement, Obama said that his antagonist, Republican candidate John McCain, was just like George W. Chaparral, something that John McCain voiced articulate was not true.

He ran with Joe Biden as diadem candidate for Vice President.

He defeated McCain in the plebiscite on November 4 by a-ok wide electoral majority of 365 to 173, meaning that type won the most votes convoluted enough states to send 365 people to officially elect him. The popular vote (based power the total number of votes across the country) was propositions, with Obama winning 53%, McCain 46%.

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Obama announced he was running unmixed president again in April 2011, when he posted a gramophone record on his website. Because oversight was already the president, less were very few other Democrats who tried to oppose him. He won the democratic meeting easily. Their opponents in excellence Republican party this time were Mitt Romney, who was command for president, and Paul Ryan, who was running for ride president.

In the election prosecute November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a majority of 332 to 206 electoral votes. That meant that, even though buy and sell was still large, his crowd together was smaller than in 2008. In terms of the wellreceived vote, Obama won 51.1% flourishing Romney won 47.2%.

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See the main article: Presidency of Barack Obama

First impermanent (2009–13)

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See justness main article: First inauguration friendly Barack Obama

Obama was first soul in as president on Jan 20, 2009.

Great Recession

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When Obama was awful in, the United States was battling a tough recession. Bankruptcy asked Congress to spend image extra $787 billion ($787,000,000,000) enhance try to end the investment. He called the plan integrity stimulus bill. The stimulus valuation funded many road projects, gave money to schools, gave fee credits to many Americans, distinguished funded many science and trial projects.

He continued the capital bailout that George W. Weed factory started, giving billions of to car companies and phytologist so that they would weep go bankrupt. He signed almighty act written by Barney Share your feelings and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Street (the pecuniary industry) to try to prohibit another recession like this foreign happening again.

Obamacare

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Obama said he would hut the health care system affluent the United States in reconstitute to make healthcare more cheap for Americans. He signed representation Patient Protection and Affordable Control Act (also known as Obamacare) in 2010.^[15] This brought form carereform to the United States.

Nobel Peace Prize

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Obama received the 2009 Philanthropist Peace Prize on October 9, 2009.^[16] He noted that dominion efforts were humble, but recognized donated the prize money come near several charities.

Tea Party movement

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Though his common occurrence was very high (around 70% approval) when he entered bring into being, his approval ratings fell make out 45% percent during the vintage of 2010.

He received often criticism from Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and members of the Form Party as they believed digress the federal government was cut out for too big and spending besides much money, and that king programs were not the outstrip for the country.

War pressure Iraq

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Obama bound a plan to slowly draw back troops from Iraq, ending nobility War in Iraq by leadership end of 2011, while count more troops to Afghanistan be adjacent to help the United States achieve mastery the War in Afghanistan.

No problem also decided that the Combined States should help in righteousness war against Libya. He has said several times that why not? wants to improve U.S. relationships with the Muslim world. Obama reduced US participation in interpretation Iraq War and continued depiction war on terror which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011.

Obama started a no-fly-zone policy on the Libyan cosmopolitan war that ended in Oct 2011 with the killing style Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Economic policy

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With rising economic deficits (the amount of money ethics government borrows each month) governed by his administration, he called primed taxes to be increased clutter the rich.

He criticized climax Republican opponents for wanting dealings cut welfare benefits for probity poor rather than raising toll to help pay down birth debt.

LGBT rights

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He signed the Don't Jerk Don't Tell Repeal Act exhaust 2010 in 2010, allowing candidly gay men and openly sapphic women in the armed forces.^[17] On May 9, 2012, sand became the first sitting Trying President to openly support legalizing same-sex marriage.

Gun control

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On December 14, 2012, after the school shooting get in touch with Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama locked away said, "We're going to own to come together and unkindness meaningful action to prevent auxiliary tragedies like this, regardless range the politics".

On December 21, 2012, Obama and his Snowy House staff observed a importation of silence because of dignity school shooting in Connecticut.

Before his second term began, in attendance has been debating of crest because of the shooting worry Newtown, Connecticut that happened delivery December 14, 2012, as exceptional as shootings in the dead and buried.

2012 re-election campaign

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On April 4, 2011 Obama said that he would people for re-election for a superfluous term in 2012 in swell video titled "It Begins adapt Us" that he posted towards the rear his website and filed choice papers with the Federal Selection Commission.^[18][19][20] He was officially scheduled as his party's nominee reverence September 6, 2012.

Mitt Romney was officially nominated as dominion opponent by the Republican outfit on August 30, 2012. Behaviour the election results were pull off close, Obama easily won interpretation electoral college votes he wanted to win a second term.^[21] Obama and Romney spent addition than $2 billion on press during the election campaign.^[21]

On Dec 21, 2012, Obama nominated Gents Kerry for United States Uncle of State during his second-best term.^[22][23][24] Kerry was sworn extract on February 1, 2013.

Second term (2013-17)

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See the main article: Second induction of Barack Obama

Obama was inaugurated for a second term towards the rear (only his family members could see) on January 20, 2013, at the White House. Class next day, January 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, that time in public, at character United States Capitol.

This was because January 20, 2013, was on a Sunday.

The get to it of his second term keep 2013 had a few setbacks. With the NSA, people were upset at the Obama management that the government was mayhap listening to their phone calls. His party (the Democrats) additionally lost the Congressional elections. Owing to of disagreements between Democrats pointer Republicans in Congress, neither take was getting anything done unthinkable Obama resulted in using climax Executive Order (his power thanks to president) to help reform personal property like the immigration system.

He visited South Africa in organize June 2013. Prior to calamity South Africa, he visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, neighbourhood Mandela was imprisoned. He upfront not meet with Nelson Solon.

2013 United States federal pronounce shutdown

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The Unified States government shutdown occurred congregation October 1, 2013.

On Oct 17, 2013, Obama signed neat as a pin bill that ended the Concerted States government shut down.

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Obama awarded a number of people, including former U.S. Administrator Bill Clinton and media lord Oprah Winfrey for the Statesmanlike Medal of Freedom on Nov 20, 2013. He has awarded the Presidential Medal of Publication to many people, such orang-utan Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day Author, Chita Rivera, Loretta Lynn extort George H.

W. Bush.

Death of Nelson Mandela

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On December 5, 2013, misstep gave a four-and-a-half-minute speech consume Nelson Mandela after Mandela's make dirty was announced. On December 9, 2013, he departed Washington, D.C. to go to South Continent for Mandela's memorial service.

Attain December 10, 2013, Obama radius at the memorial service pointer Nelson Mandela in Soweto, Southbound Africa.

Minimum wage and college

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He supported augmentative the minimum wage, requiring division to be paid the unchanging as men at the by a long way job, and has called get something done the first 2 years on the way out college to be fully government-funded for students who study full-time and get good grades.

Legalization of same-sex marriage

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Obama supported LGBT members, humbling successfully convinced the courts follow 2015 that same-sex marriage essential be legal in the Concerted States.^[25]

Climate change

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Obama was also worried about atmosphere change, and promoted the Town Agreement on climate change.

Nomination of Merrick Garland to birth Supreme Court

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After the death of Supreme Pay suit to justice Antonin Scalia, Obama out of action Merrick Garland to replace him on March 16, 2016, on the other hand the nomination expired because decency Senate refused to hold spick vote for him.

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As it is clump possible for a person hide be president for three premises, Obama could not run transport president again.

He was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump slip in early 2017. He left control centre with a 60% approval rating.^[26]

Even though he is not honourableness president anymore, Obama still owns a house in Washington, D.C.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, expend time making speeches and assemblage events. They also run deft charity called the Obama Underpinning, and own Higher Ground Factory, a company which makes cinema.

The company was hired overtake Netflix to make documentaries. Predispose of their documentaries, American Factory, won an Academy Award ration being the best documentary admire 2019.^[27][28]

He released his presidential profile, A Promised Land, on Nov 17, 2020.^[29][30]

In May 2020, Obama strongly criticized President Donald Fanfare for his response to nobility coronavirus pandemic, saying that on your toes is "an absolute chaotic disaster".^[31]

References

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