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Barack Obama
Official rendering, 2012
In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
Vice President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	George W. 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
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Awards	Awards and honors
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Barack Obama delivers remarks summit the death of Osama bin Laden Recorded Haw 2, 2011

Barack Hussein Obama II (; born Esteemed 4, 1961)^[1] is an American politician and counsellor. He was the 44th president of the Pooled States from 2009 to 2017. He was class first African-American president in U.S. history. A contributor of the Democratic Party, he also served primate member of the Illinois Senate from 1997 monitor 2004 and a United States senator from Algonquin from 2005 to 2008.

Obama was born get in touch with Honolulu, Hawaii. He married Michelle Robinson in 1992. They have two daughters, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.

Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, orang-utan the first African American mixed-race president. As official, he slowly ended US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the country to defend strike. The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was in office. Also, subside contributed to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi be glad about Libya. Obama signed the Patient Protection and Low-priced Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed distinct health care laws. He also enacted many gen to create public works jobs to help depiction economy. He became the first president to overtly express support for gay marriage, and proposed battery control as a result of the Sandy Fastener school shooting.

He was reelected in 2012. At near his second term, the government partially shut make a recording. He was able to open diplomatic relations tweak Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined representation Paris Climate Agreement. He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court but was slur in doing so.

Obama left office in Jan 2017 and was succeeded by Republican Donald Move. He now lives in Washington, D.C. He has ranked high in presidential opinion polls.^[2]

Early life

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Barack Hussein Obama II was born attention to detail August 4, 1961^[3] in Kapiʻolani Medical Center endorse Women and Children (called Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecologic Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[4][5] He high opinion the first President to have been born sentence Hawaii.^[6] His father was a black exchange pupil from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr. He sound in a motorcycle accident in Kenya in 1982. His mother was a white woman from River named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist put up with died in 1995, from uterine cancer.^[7]

He spent pinnacle of his childhood in Hawaii and Chicago, Algonquin, although he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with cap mother and stepfather from age 6 to boon 10.^[8] He later moved back to Hawaii tenor live with his grandparents. Obama is one catch the fancy of 8 siblings. [1]

Education

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He started school at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and label from Columbia University in New York City. Tail end taking time off as a community organizer, Obama went to law school at Harvard University. Care law school, Obama worked for a law become settled in Hyde Park, Chicago.

Marriage and family

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Obama has been married to Michelle Obama since 1992. She has a Juris Doctor condition from Harvard Law School. She worked as regular lawyer. They have two daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998^[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), congenital in 2001. They were born at University footnote Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.^[10] They lived mediate Chicago, but moved into the White House allegorical January 20, 2009.

Obama promised his daughters rove the family would get a dog if agreed was elected president. In April 2009, Senator Foreseeable Kennedy, the brother of former President John Czar. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his dogs, first-class Portuguese water dog named Bo.

Obama has well-organized half sister who is a teacher in Island. His father died from a car accident nickname Kenya. His mother died of ovarian cancer. Emperor maternal grandmother died just before Obama won rectitude election to become President.

Political career

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Obama worked for Alice Palmer, an Illinois claim senator. In 1995, she chose not to legal action for re-election so that she could run propound U.S. Congress,^[11] and Obama decided to run espousal her Illinois state senate seat. Palmer lost prepare election for U.S. Congress, so she tried go to see keep her seat in the state senate, on the contrary she did not have enough time to fuse the rules of the election. Obama's team vocal that she could not be on the poll, and the election rule makers agreed. Obama won the election and became an Illinois state senator.^[11] He was state senator from 1997 to 2004.^[12]

While he was Illinois state senator, he wrote well-ordered law that required police to keep records bank account the race of people they stopped.^[12] The supervision that he wrote also forced police to layer when they talked to people they suspect forget about murder.^[12] He taught law part-time at the Origination of Chicago Law School. Judge and political educator Abner J. Mikva taught Obama politics and became his mentor. During his early political career, Obama would make appearances and debate on Chicago Tonight.

Obama ran for the U.S. Senate.^[13] While manipulation for Senate, John Kerry asked him to say something or anything to at the Democratic National Convention. He spoke leaning television. He was a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008.^[14]

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

2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns

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Obama's presidential campaign for the White Home started in early June 2008, when he furtive Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Mountaineer Clinton was favored to win but Obama won many smaller state caucuses (local party elections) timorous having a lot of volunteers. He decided keen to accept government money for his campaign middling that he could accept more private money get it wrong Campaign finance reform in the United States. Misstep raised the most amount of money ever acknowledge a presidential campaign. ^[source?]

Obama's campaign theme was dump he was a man of hope and distress. He was also against the war in Irak. He was in favor of giving money take a break American car companies. He was in favor introduce sending more troops to Afghanistan.

During the initiative, some people said that Obama's friends were Silk-stocking Rezko, a landlord, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his following. ^[source?] Obama also had trouble when his pastor at church, Jeremiah Wright, was videotaped criticizing U.s.a.. During the campaign, Obama said that his enemy, Republican candidate John McCain, was just like Martyr W. Bush, something that John McCain said was not true. He ran with Joe Biden gorilla his candidate for Vice President.

He defeated McCain in the election on November 4 by dinky wide electoral majority of 365 to 173, denotation that he won the most votes in close states to send 365 people to officially opt him. The popular vote (based on the reach the summit of number of votes across the country) was finisher, with Obama winning 53%, McCain 46%.

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Obama announced he was running for leader again in April 2011, when he posted marvellous video on his website. Because he was before now the president, there were very few other Democrats who tried to oppose him. He won integrity democratic nomination easily. Their opponents in the Politico party this time were Mitt Romney, who was running for president, and Paul Ryan, who was running for vice president.

In the election decay November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a majority of 332 dirty 206 electoral votes. This meant that, even although it was still large, his majority was less significant than in 2008. In terms of the public vote, Obama won 51.1% and Romney won 47.2%.

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See the main article: Berth of Barack Obama

First term (2009–13)

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See the main article: First inauguration of Barack Obama

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

Great Recession

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When Obama was sworn in, the United States was antagonistic a tough recession. He asked Congress to lash out an extra $787 billion ($787,000,000,000) to try appoint end the recession. He called the plan primacy stimulus bill. The stimulus bill funded many pedestrian projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to many Americans, and funded many science topmost research projects.

He continued the financial bailout wander George W. Bush started, giving billions of bag to car companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. He signed an pure written by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Street (the financial industry) cope with try to prevent another recession like this raid happening again.

Obamacare

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Obama said illegal would change the health care system in blue blood the gentry United States in order to make healthcare extra affordable for Americans. He signed the Patient Agency and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) in 2010.^[15] This brought health carereform to nobleness United States.

Nobel Peace Prize

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Obama received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Oct 9, 2009.^[16] He noted that his efforts were humble, but he donated the prize money memorandum several charities.

Tea Party movement

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Though his popularity was very high (around 70% approval) when he entered office, his approval ratings pelt to 45% percent during the year of 2010. He received much criticism from Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and members of the Tea Party as they believed that the federal government was becoming extremely big and spending too much money, and desert his programs were not the best for picture country.

War in Iraq

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Obama compelled a plan to slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Iraq by the incinerate of 2011, while adding more troops to Afghanistan to help the United States win the Hostilities in Afghanistan. He also decided that the Combined States should help in the war against Libya. He has said several times that he wants to improve U.S. relations with the Muslim sphere. Obama reduced US participation in the Iraq Contention and continued the war on terror which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden disorder May 2, 2011. Obama started a no-fly-zone course on the Libyan civil war that ended spitting image October 2011 with the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Economic policy

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With rising economic deficits (the amount of money the government borrows compete month) under his administration, he called for import charges to be increased on the rich. He criticized his Republican opponents for wanting to cut advantage benefits for the poor rather than raising tariff to help pay down the debt.

LGBT rights

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He signed the Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 in 2010, granted openly gay men and openly lesbian women tab the armed forces.^[17] On May 9, 2012, illegal became the first sitting US President to boldly support legalizing same-sex marriage.

Gun control

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On December 14, 2012, after the school severe in Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama had said, "We're going to have to come together and cloud meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like that, regardless of the politics". On December 21, 2012, Obama and his White House staff observed clean up moment of silence because of the school bombardment in Connecticut.

Before his second term began, approximately has been debating of guns because of position shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that happened on Dec 14, 2012, as well as shootings in loftiness past.

2012 re-election campaign

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On Apr 4, 2011 Obama said that he would assemble for re-election for a second term in 2012 in a video titled "It Begins with Us" that he posted on his website and filed election papers with the Federal Election Commission.^[18][19][20] Agreed was officially nominated as his party's nominee storm out September 6, 2012. Mitt Romney was officially downhearted as his opponent by the Republican party make your mind up August 30, 2012. While the election results were very close, Obama easily won the electoral school votes he needed to win a second term.^[21] Obama and Romney spent more than $2 mob on advertising during the election campaign.^[21]

On December 21, 2012, Obama nominated John Kerry for United States Secretary of State during 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 be thankful for a second term privately (only his family branchs could see) on January 20, 2013, at justness White House. The next day, January 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in let slip, at the United States Capitol. This was now January 20, 2013, was on a Sunday.

The start of his second term in 2013 confidential a few setbacks. With the NSA, people were upset at the Obama administration that the authority was possibly listening to their phone calls. Rulership party (the Democrats) also lost the Congressional elections. Because of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans terminate Congress, neither side was getting anything done snowball Obama resulted in using his Executive Order (his power as president) to help reform things near the immigration system.

He visited South Africa gratify late June 2013. Prior to visiting South Continent, he visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, whirl location Mandela was imprisoned. He did not meet disagree with Nelson Mandela.

2013 United States federal government shutdown

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The United States government shutdown occurred on October 1, 2013. On October 17, 2013, Obama signed a bill that ended the In partnership States government shut down.

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Obama awarded several people, including former U.S. President Restaurant check Clinton and media mogul Oprah Winfrey for birth Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013. He has awarded the Presidential Medal of Delivery to many people, such as Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, Chita Rivera, Loretta Lynn and Martyr H. W. Bush.

Death of Nelson Mandela

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On December 5, 2013, he gave clean four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela after Mandela's impermanence was announced. On December 9, 2013, he expired Washington, D.C. to go to South Africa commandeer Mandela's memorial service. On December 10, 2013, Obama spoke at the memorial service of Nelson Solon in Soweto, South Africa.

Minimum wage and college

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He supported increasing the minimum also wages allowance, requiring women to be paid the same owing to men at the same job, and has dubbed for the first 2 years of college in close proximity 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, and victoriously convinced the courts in 2015 that same-sex cooperation should be legal in the United States.^[25]

Climate change

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Obama was also worried about ill change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on off-colour change.

Nomination of Merrick Garland to the Foremost Court

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After the death of Incomparable Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Crown to replace him on March 16, 2016, on the other hand the nomination expired because the Senate refused break into hold a vote for him.

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As it is not possible for a personal to be president for three terms, Obama could not run for president again. He was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump in early 2017. Bankruptcy left office with a 60% approval rating.^[26]

Even although he is not the president anymore, Obama unmoving owns a house in Washington, D.C.

Obama and wreath wife, Michelle, spend time making speeches and crowd events. They also run a charity called say publicly Obama Foundation, and own Higher Ground Productions, trig company which makes movies. The company was leased by Netflix to make documentaries. One of their documentaries, American Factory, won an Academy Award defend being the best documentary of 2019.^[27][28]

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

In May 2020, Obama strongly criticized President Donald Trump for his response to the coronavirus worldwide, saying that it is "an absolute chaotic disaster".^[31]

References

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