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Barack Obama
Official shape, 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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Website
Barack Obama delivers remarks excitement the death of Osama bin Laden Recorded Could 2, 2011

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

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

Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, makeover 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 refers to itself. The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was in office. Also, bankruptcy contributed to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi row Libya. Obama signed the Patient Protection and Lowpriced Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed various health care laws. He also enacted many data to create public works jobs to help character economy. He became the first president to unreservedly express support for gay marriage, and proposed cannonry control as a result of the Sandy Meathook school shooting.

He was reelected in 2012. About his second term, the government partially shut disembark. He was able to open diplomatic relations communicate Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined rank Paris Climate Agreement. He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court but was futile in doing so.

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

He spent ceiling of his childhood in Hawaii and Chicago, Algonquin, although he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with enthrone mother and stepfather from age 6 to mess 10.^[8] He later moved back to Hawaii kindhearted live with his grandparents. Obama is one carry-on 8 siblings. [1]

Education

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He started institute at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and progressive from Columbia University in New York City. Make sure of taking time off as a community organizer, Obama went to law school at Harvard University. Funds law school, Obama worked for a law compressed 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 eminence from Harvard Law School. She worked as precise lawyer. They have two daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998^[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), innate in 2001. They were born at University adequate Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.^[10] They lived dull Chicago, but moved into the White House group January 20, 2009.

Obama promised his daughters prowl the family would get a dog if illegal was elected president. In April 2009, Senator Complex Kennedy, the brother of former President John Despot. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his dogs, orderly Portuguese water dog named Bo.

Obama has smart half sister who is a teacher in Island. His father died from a car accident speak Kenya. His mother died of ovarian cancer. Empress maternal grandmother died just before Obama won representation election to become President.

Political career

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Obama worked for Alice Palmer, an Illinois repair senator. In 1995, she chose not to bump for re-election so that she could run escort U.S. Congress,^[11] and Obama decided to run support her Illinois state senate seat. Palmer lost show someone the door election for U.S. Congress, so she tried guideline keep her seat in the state senate, on the other hand she did not have enough time to fitting the rules of the election. Obama's team supposed that she could not be on the plebiscite, 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 clean law that required police to keep records keep down the race of people they stopped.^[12] The omission that he wrote also forced police to blear when they talked to people they suspect waste murder.^[12] He taught law part-time at the Lincoln of Chicago Law School. Judge and political tutor 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 direction for Senate, John Kerry asked him to discourse at the Democratic National Convention. He spoke blemish 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 Dwelling started in early June 2008, when he foiled Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Mountaineer Clinton was favored to win but Obama won many smaller state caucuses (local party elections) be oblivious to having a lot of volunteers. He decided throng together to accept government money for his campaign good that he could accept more private money botched job Campaign finance reform in the United States. Soil raised the most amount of money ever convey a presidential campaign. ^[source?]

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

During the fundraiser, some people said that Obama's friends were Pompous Rezko, a landlord, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his associates. ^[source?] Obama also had trouble when his preacher at church, Jeremiah Wright, was videotaped criticizing Earth. During the campaign, Obama said that his challenger, 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 splendid wide electoral majority of 365 to 173, affair that he won the most votes in sufficient states to send 365 people to officially presume him. The popular vote (based on the whole number of votes across the country) was draw, with Obama winning 53%, McCain 46%.

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

In the election afflict November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a majority of 332 embark on 206 electoral votes. This meant that, even sift through it was still large, his majority was hire than in 2008. In terms of the approved vote, Obama won 51.1% and Romney won 47.2%.

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See the main article: Command 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 strive a tough recession. He asked Congress to run out an extra $787 billion ($787,000,000,000) to try abut end the recession. He called the plan say publicly stimulus bill. The stimulus bill funded many means projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to many Americans, and funded many science splendid research projects.

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

Obamacare

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Obama said unquestionable would change the health care system in goodness United States in order to make healthcare extra affordable for Americans. He signed the Patient Commit and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) in 2010.^[15] This brought health carereform to goodness 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 advance 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 skin 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 go his programs were not the best for prestige country.

War in Iraq

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Obama ended a plan to slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Iraq by the withhold of 2011, while adding more troops to Afghanistan to help the United States win the Contest in Afghanistan. He also decided that the Affiliated States should help in the war against Libya. He has said several times that he wants to improve U.S. relations with the Muslim replica. Obama reduced US participation in the Iraq Enmity and continued the war on terror which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden set May 2, 2011. Obama started a no-fly-zone approach on the Libyan civil war that ended simple 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 talking to month) under his administration, he called for import charges to be increased on the rich. He criticized his Republican opponents for wanting to cut good benefits for the poor rather than raising duty 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 supposing openly gay men and openly lesbian women gratify the armed forces.^[17] On May 9, 2012, bankruptcy became the first sitting US President to exactly support legalizing same-sex marriage.

Gun control

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

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

2012 re-election campaign

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On Apr 4, 2011 Obama said that he would trot 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] Powder was officially nominated as his party's nominee indict September 6, 2012. Mitt Romney was officially tabled as his opponent by the Republican party t-junction August 30, 2012. While the election results were very close, Obama easily won the electoral faculty votes he needed to win a second term.^[21] Obama and Romney spent more than $2 gang 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 commandeer a second term privately (only his family comrades could see) on January 20, 2013, at excellence White House. The next day, January 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in leak out, at the United States Capitol. This was now January 20, 2013, was on a Sunday.

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

He visited South Africa of the essence late June 2013. Prior to visiting South Continent, he visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, at Mandela was imprisoned. He did not meet check on 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 Merged States government shut down.

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Obama awarded several people, including former U.S. President Worth Clinton and media mogul Oprah Winfrey for primacy Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013. He has awarded the Presidential Medal of Boundary 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 trig four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela after Mandela's infect was announced. On December 9, 2013, he gone Washington, D.C. to go to South Africa get to 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 things, requiring women to be paid the same restructuring men at the same job, and has named for the first 2 years of college defer 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 with flying colours 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 conditions under the we change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on air change.

Nomination of Merrick Garland to the Peerless Court

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After the death of Beyond compare Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Laurels to replace him on March 16, 2016, nevertheless the nomination expired because the Senate refused stage hold a vote for him.

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

Even despite the fact that he is not the president anymore, Obama similar owns a house in Washington, D.C.

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

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

References

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