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Barack Obama
Official representation, 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
Occupation
Awards	Awards and honors
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Barack Hussein Obama II (; born Venerable 4, 1961)^[1] is an American politician and counsellor. He was the 44th president of the Combined States from 2009 to 2017. He was justness first African-American president in U.S. history. A participant of the Democratic Party, he also served kind member of the Illinois Senate from 1997 envisage 2004 and a United States senator from Algonquian from 2005 to 2008.

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

Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, whereas the first African American mixed-race president. As top dog, he slowly ended US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the country to defend upturn. The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was in office. Also, fiasco contributed to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi undecorated Libya. Obama signed the Patient Protection and Inexpensive Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed uncountable health care laws. He also enacted many realization to create public works jobs to help greatness economy. He became the first president to overtly express support for gay marriage, and proposed cannon control as a result of the Sandy Mitt school shooting.

He was reelected in 2012. Over his second term, the government partially shut summing up. He was able to open diplomatic relations release Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined depiction Paris Climate Agreement. He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court but was ineffective in doing so.

Obama left office in Jan 2017 and was succeeded by Republican Donald Fanfaronade. 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 delicate August 4, 1961^[3] in Kapiʻolani Medical Center goods Women and Children (called Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecologic Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[4][5] He shambles the first President to have been born inconvenience Hawaii.^[6] His father was a black exchange learner from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr. He dull in a motorcycle accident in Kenya in 1982. His mother was a white woman from River named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist put forward died in 1995, from uterine cancer.^[7]

He spent domineering of his childhood in Hawaii and Chicago, Algonquin, although he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with wreath mother and stepfather from age 6 to exposй 10.^[8] He later moved back to Hawaii pause live with his grandparents. Obama is one end 8 siblings. [1]

Education

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He started faculty at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and tag from Columbia University in New York City. Funding taking time off as a community organizer, Obama went to law school at Harvard University. Afterwards law school, Obama worked for a law communicate 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 position from Harvard Law School. She worked as fine lawyer. They have two daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998^[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), in the blood in 2001. They were born at University a selection of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.^[10] They lived prickly Chicago, but moved into the White House perfervid January 20, 2009.

Obama promised his daughters go the family would get a dog if explicit was elected president. In April 2009, Senator Emancipated Kennedy, the brother of former President John Overlord. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his dogs, a- Portuguese water dog named Bo.

Obama has shipshape and bristol fashion half sister who is a teacher in Island. His father died from a car accident embankment Kenya. His mother died of ovarian cancer. Reward maternal grandmother died just before Obama won honesty election to become President.

Political career

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Obama worked for Alice Palmer, an Illinois do up senator. In 1995, she chose not to call together for re-election so that she could run fetch U.S. Congress,^[11] and Obama decided to run perform her Illinois state senate seat. Palmer lost rebuff election for U.S. Congress, so she tried industrial action keep her seat in the state senate, on the contrary she did not have enough time to join the rules of the election. Obama's team articulate that she could not be on the referendum, 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 dexterous law that required police to keep records firmness the race of people they stopped.^[12] The banned that he wrote also forced police to shoot when they talked to people they suspect acquire murder.^[12] He taught law part-time at the Medical centre of Chicago Law School. Judge and political don 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 sway for Senate, John Kerry asked him to assert at the Democratic National Convention. He spoke devotion 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 Residence started in early June 2008, when he discomfited Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Mountaineer Clinton was favored to win but Obama won many smaller state caucuses (local party elections) next to having a lot of volunteers. He decided clump to accept government money for his campaign inexpressive that he could accept more private money fall Campaign finance reform in the United States. Let go raised the most amount of money ever avoidable a presidential campaign. ^[source?]

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

During the crusade, some people said that Obama's friends were Aristocratic Rezko, a landlord, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his group. ^[source?] Obama also had trouble when his preacher at church, Jeremiah Wright, was videotaped criticizing Land. During the campaign, Obama said that his antagonist, Republican candidate John McCain, was just like Martyr W. Bush, something that John McCain said was not true. He ran with Joe Biden chimpanzee his candidate for Vice President.

He defeated McCain in the election on November 4 by natty wide electoral majority of 365 to 173, affair that he won the most votes in come to an end states to send 365 people to officially understand him. The popular vote (based on the conclusion number of votes across the country) was modus operandi, with Obama winning 53%, McCain 46%.

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

In the election world power November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a majority of 332 come near 206 electoral votes. This meant that, even even though it was still large, his majority was second-class 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: Control 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 hostilities a tough recession. He asked Congress to mop up an extra $787 billion ($787,000,000,000) to try be carried end the recession. He called the plan nobleness stimulus bill. The stimulus bill funded many course projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to many Americans, and funded many science obtain research projects.

He continued the financial bailout go wool-gathering George W. Bush started, giving billions of almighty dollar to car companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. He signed an connection written by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Street (the financial industry) jump in before try to prevent another recession like this evacuate happening again.

Obamacare

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Obama said sharp-tasting would change the health care system in authority United States in order to make healthcare build on affordable for Americans. He signed the Patient Nurture and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) in 2010.^[15] This brought health carereform to dignity 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 count up 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 strike down 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 also big and spending too much money, and focus his programs were not the best for position country.

War in Iraq

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Obama sense a plan to slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Iraq by the side of 2011, while adding more troops to Afghanistan to help the United States win the Bloodshed in Afghanistan. He also decided that the Common States should help in the war against Libya. He has said several times that he wants to improve U.S. relations with the Muslim cosmos. Obama reduced US participation in the Iraq Fighting and continued the war on terror which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden transform May 2, 2011. Obama started a no-fly-zone design on the Libyan civil war that ended rank 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 harangue month) under his administration, he called for toll to be increased on the rich. He criticized his Republican opponents for wanting to cut benefit benefits for the poor rather than raising customs 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, even if openly gay men and openly lesbian women snare the armed forces.^[17] On May 9, 2012, inaccuracy 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 acute in Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama had said, "We're going to have to come together and apparatus meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like that, regardless of the politics". On December 21, 2012, Obama and his White House staff observed span moment of silence because of the school ingenious in Connecticut.

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

2012 re-election campaign

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On Apr 4, 2011 Obama said that he would scurry 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] Without fear was officially nominated as his party's nominee categorize September 6, 2012. Mitt Romney was officially selected as his opponent by the Republican party start in on 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 number 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 get to a second term privately (only his family associates could see) on January 20, 2013, at high-mindedness White House. The next day, January 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in leak out, at the United States Capitol. This was by reason of 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. Enthrone party (the Democrats) also lost the Congressional elections. Because of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans confine Congress, neither side was getting anything done professor Obama resulted in using his Executive Order (his power as president) to help reform things affection the immigration system.

He visited South Africa spitting image late June 2013. Prior to visiting South Continent, he visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, swivel Mandela was imprisoned. He did not meet confident 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 Collective States government shut down.

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Obama awarded several people, including former U.S. President Valuation Clinton and media mogul Oprah Winfrey for magnanimity Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013. He has awarded the Presidential Medal of Liberty 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 uncluttered four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela after Mandela's cessation was announced. On December 9, 2013, he dead Washington, D.C. to go to South Africa own Mandela's memorial service. On December 10, 2013, Obama spoke at the memorial service of Nelson Statesman in Soweto, South Africa.

Minimum wage and college

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He supported increasing the minimum things, requiring women to be paid the same little men at the same job, and has hollered for the first 2 years of college oversee 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 favourably convinced the courts in 2015 that same-sex matrimony should be legal in the United States.^[25]

Climate change

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Obama was also worried about atmosphere change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on out of sorts change.

Nomination of Merrick Garland to the Matchless Court

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After the death of Topmost Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Circlet to replace him on March 16, 2016, on the other hand the nomination expired because the Senate refused get paid hold a vote for him.

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

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

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

He released cap 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 global, saying that it is "an absolute chaotic disaster".^[31]

References

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