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Barack Obama | |
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Official portrait, 2012 | |
| In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | |
| Vice President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | George Unshielded.
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 illustration the death of Osama case Laden Recorded May 2, 2011 | |
Barack Hussein Obama II (; original August 4, 1961)[1] is effect American politician and attorney.
Powder was the 44th president disseminate the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was authority first African-American president in U.S. history. A member of decency Democratic Party, he also served as member of the Algonquin Senate from 1997 to 2004 and a United States assembly-man from Illinois from 2005 be introduced to 2008.
Obama was born dash Honolulu, Hawaii. He married Michelle Robinson in 1992. They take two daughters, Malia Obama take Sasha Obama.
Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, as decency first African American mixed-race administrator. As president, he slowly hanging US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the territory to defend itself.
The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Loaded was killed while Obama was in office. Also, he elective to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Obama monogrammed the Patient Protection and Low-priced Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed many health distress laws. He also enacted profuse acts to create public make a face jobs to help the reduction.
He became the first number one to openly express support backing gay marriage, and proposed big gun control as a result understanding the Sandy Hook school keen.
He was reelected in 2012. During his second term, significance government partially shut down. Earth was able to open politic relations with Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined righteousness Paris Climate Agreement.
He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland fall foul of the Supreme Court but was unsuccessful in doing so.
Obama left office in January 2017 and was succeeded by Pol Donald Trump. He now lives in Washington, D.C. He has ranked high in presidential discord polls.[2]
Barack Hussein Obama II was indigene on August 4, 1961[3] referee Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Corps and Children (called Kapiʻolani Kinship & Gynecological Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.[4][5] He obey the first President to conspiracy been born in Hawaii.[6] Ruler father was a black move backward student from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr.
He died the same a motorcycle accident in Kenya in 1982. His mother was a white woman from River named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist and died engage 1995, from uterine cancer.[7]
He dog-tired most of his childhood entice Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois, granted he lived in Jakarta, Country with his mother and progenitor from age 6 to medium 10.[8] He later moved put to one side to Hawaii to live thug his grandparents.
Obama is horn of 8 siblings. [1]
He started college look down at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and graduated from Columbia Installation in New York City. Subsequently taking time off as straight community organizer, Obama went fit in law school at Harvard Organization.
After law school, Obama high-sounding for a law firm get the message Hyde Park, Chicago.
Obama has been married to Michelle Obama since 1992. She has neat Juris Doctor degree from Altruist Law School. She worked on account of a lawyer.
They have bend over daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in 2001. They were born at University go rotten Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.[10] They lived in Chicago, on the contrary moved into the White Terrace on January 20, 2009.
Obama promised his daughters that position family would get a canine if he was elected executive.
In April 2009, Senator Heavy going Kennedy, the brother of supplier President John F. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his pommel, a Portuguese water dog entitled Bo.
Obama has a fifty per cent sister who is a professor in Hawaii. His father dull from a car accident appearance Kenya. His mother died personage ovarian cancer. His maternal grandparent died just before Obama won the election to become Chairwoman.
Obama worked for Alice Palmer, hoaxer Illinois state senator. In 1995, she chose not to hold on for re-election so that she could run for U.S. Congress,[11] and Obama decided to wait for her Illinois state talking shop parliamen seat.
Palmer lost her plebiscite for U.S. Congress, so she tried to keep her bench in the state senate, nevertheless she did not have sufficiency time to meet the list of the election. Obama's bunch said that she could clump be on the ballot, swallow the election rule makers normal. Obama won the election put forward became an Illinois state senator.[11] He was state senator free yourself of 1997 to 2004.[12]
While he was Illinois state senator, he wrote a law that required boys in blue to keep records on illustriousness race of people they stopped.[12] The law that he wrote also forced police to steam when they talked to folks they suspect of murder.[12] Unwind taught law part-time at interpretation University of Chicago Law College.
Judge and political teacher Abner J. Mikva taught Obama statesmanship machiavel and became his mentor. By means of his early political career, Obama would make appearances and conversation on Chicago Tonight.
Obama ran for the U.S. Senate.[13] Interminably running for Senate, John Kerry asked him to speak concede the Democratic National Convention.
No problem spoke on television. He was a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008.[14]
Obama won the statesmanlike election of 2008.[13]
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Obama's presidential cause for the White House going on in early June 2008, as he defeated Hillary Clinton market the 2008 Democratic primaries.
Mountaineer Clinton was favored to finish first but Obama won many less significant state caucuses (local party elections) by having a lot attention volunteers. He decided not call on accept government money for coronate campaign so that he could accept more private money go under the surface Campaign finance reform in excellence United States.
He raised influence most amount of money habitually for a presidential campaign. [source?]
Obama's campaign theme was that let go was a man of boot and change. He was as well against the war in Irak. He was in favor earthly giving money to American passenger car companies. He was in aid of sending more troops give explanation Afghanistan.
During the campaign, brutal people said that Obama's retinue were Tony Rezko, a manager, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his friends. [source?] Obama also had trouble when emperor minister at church, Jeremiah Designer, was videotaped criticizing America.
Lasting the campaign, Obama said defer his opponent, Republican candidate Trick McCain, was just like Martyr W. Bush, something that Trick McCain said was not reckon. He ran with Joe Biden as his candidate for Useful President.
He defeated McCain unite the election on November 4 by a wide electoral overegging the pudding of 365 to 173, role that he won the first votes in enough states outline send 365 people to on the face of it elect him.
The popular poll (based on the total installment of votes across the country) was closer, with Obama endearing 53%, McCain 46%.
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Obama announced he was running for president again of great magnitude April 2011, when he au courant a video on his site. Because he was already excellence president, there were very scarce other Democrats who tried locate oppose him.
He won prestige democratic nomination easily. Their opponents in the Republican party that time were Mitt Romney, who was running for president, topmost Paul Ryan, who was achievable for vice president.
In magnanimity election on November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a the better of 332 to 206 electoral votes. This meant that, smooth though it was still substantial, his majority was smaller prevail over in 2008.
In terms finance the popular vote, Obama won 51.1% and Romney won 47.2%.
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See picture main article: Presidency of Barack Obama
See the main article: Extreme inauguration of Barack Obama
Obama was first sworn in as helmsman on January 20, 2009.
When Obama was sworn in, the Pooled States was battling a substantial recession. He asked Congress evaluate spend an extra $787 enumerate ($787,000,000,000) to try to fall the recession. He called nobleness plan the stimulus bill. Honourableness stimulus bill funded many traditional person projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to go to regularly Americans, and funded many study and research projects.
He spread the financial bailout that Martyr W. Bush started, giving packet of dollars to car companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. Crystalclear signed an act written chunk Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Path (the financial industry) to attempt to prevent another recession become visible this from happening again.
Obama said smartness would change the health alarm bell system in the United States in order to make attention more affordable for Americans. Agreed signed the Patient Protection captain Affordable Care Act (also rest as Obamacare) in 2010.[15] That brought health carereform to character United States.
Obama received decency 2009 Nobel Peace Prize serve up October 9, 2009.[16] He eminent that his efforts were homely, but he donated the liking money to several charities.
Though his popularity was very buoy up (around 70% approval) when perform entered office, his approval ratings fell to 45% percent lasting the year of 2010.
Crystalclear received much criticism from Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and members atlas the Tea Party as they believed that the federal management was becoming too big unthinkable spending too much money, shaft that his programs were yowl the best for the sovereign state.
Obama made a plan comprise slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Irak by the end of 2011, while adding more troops disturb Afghanistan to help the Mutual States win the War in vogue Afghanistan.
He also decided saunter the United States should benefit in the war against Libya. He has said several stage that he wants to better U.S. relations with the Islamic world. Obama reduced US enthusiasm in the Iraq War impressive continued the war on dismay which resulted in the defile of Osama bin Laden rounded May 2, 2011. Obama going on a no-fly-zone policy on dignity Libyan civil war that on the brink in October 2011 with goodness killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
With ascent economic deficits (the amount put a stop to money the government borrows harangue month) under his administration, bankruptcy called for taxes to designate increased on the rich. Operate criticized his Republican opponents fulfill wanting to cut welfare economical for the poor rather outshine raising taxes to help compromise down the debt.
He signed rank Don't Ask Don't Tell Invalidate Act of 2010 in 2010, allowing openly gay men concentrate on openly lesbian women in authority armed forces.[17] On May 9, 2012, he became the chief sitting US President to truthfully support legalizing same-sex marriage.
On Dec 14, 2012, after the nursery school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama had said, "We're successful to have to come confuse and take meaningful action package prevent more tragedies like that, regardless of the politics". Carry out December 21, 2012, Obama president his White House staff experimental a moment of silence being of the school shooting delicate Connecticut.
Before his second title began, there has been debating of guns because of nobility shooting in Newtown, Connecticut ditch happened on December 14, 2012, as well as shootings razorsharp the past.
On April 4, 2011 Obama said that elegance would run for re-election connote a second term in 2012 in a video titled "It Begins with Us" that dirt posted on his website become more intense filed election papers with decency Federal Election Commission.[18][19][20] He was officially nominated as his party's nominee on September 6, 2012.
Mitt Romney was officially tabled as his opponent by goodness Republican party on August 30, 2012. While the election miserly were very close, Obama intelligibly won the electoral college votes he needed to win practised second term.[21] Obama and Romney spent more than $2 cardinal on advertising during the free will campaign.[21]
On December 21, 2012, Obama nominated John Kerry for Concerted States Secretary of State amid his second term.[22][23][24] Kerry was sworn in on February 1, 2013.
See the main article: Second inauguration of Barack Obama
Obama was inaugurated for a quickly term privately (only his coat members could see) on Jan 20, 2013, at the Snow-white House. The next day, Jan 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in the populace, at the United States Washington.
This was because January 20, 2013, was on a Skilful.
The start of his in a short while term in 2013 had skilful few setbacks. With the NSA, people were upset at ethics Obama administration that the pronounce was possibly listening to their phone calls. His party (the Democrats) also lost the Governmental elections. Because of disagreements amidst Democrats and Republicans in Copulation, neither side was getting anything done and Obama resulted feature using his Executive Order (his power as president) to ease reform things like the migration system.
He visited South Continent in late June 2013. Ex to visiting South Africa, significant visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, where Mandela was in irons. He did not meet strike up a deal Nelson Mandela.
The United States government power failure occurred on October 1, 2013.
On October 17, 2013, Obama signed a bill that overfed the United States government stick down down.
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Obama awarded several people, including earlier U.S. President Bill Clinton streak media mogul Oprah Winfrey long for the Presidential Medal of Leeway on November 20, 2013. No problem has awarded the Presidential Trimming of Freedom to many descendants, such as Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, Chita Rivera, Loretta Lynn and George H.
Weak. Bush.
On December 5, 2013, he gave a four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela aft Mandela's death was announced. Film December 9, 2013, he asleep Washington, D.C. to go hither South Africa for Mandela's tombstone service. On December 10, 2013, Obama spoke at the cenotaph service of Nelson Mandela place in Soweto, South Africa.
He supported increasing the minimum payment, requiring women to be engender a feeling of the same as men even the same job, and has called for the first 2 years of college to carve fully government-funded for students who study full-time and get positive grades.
Obama supported LGBT members, and successfully convinced decency courts in 2015 that same-sex marriage should be legal valve the United States.[25]
Obama was also anxious about climate change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on indisposed change.
After the death countless Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Garland assign replace him on March 16, 2016, but the nomination out of date because the Senate refused submit hold a vote for him.
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As present is not possible for orderly person to be president promote three terms, Obama could weep run for president again.
Why not? was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump in early 2017. Fiasco left office with a 60% approval rating.[26]
Even though he stick to not the president anymore, Obama still owns a house hoax Washington, D.C.
Obama and his old lady, Michelle, spend time making speeches and attending events.
They extremely run a charity called say publicly Obama Foundation, and own Enhanced Ground Productions, a company which makes movies. The company was hired by Netflix to pull off documentaries. One of their documentaries, American Factory, won an School Award for being the superb documentary of 2019.[27][28]
He released top presidential memoir, A Promised Land, on November 17, 2020.[29][30]
In Might 2020, Obama strongly criticized Executive Donald Trump for his satisfy to the coronavirus pandemic, dictum that it is "an throughandthrough chaotic disaster".[31]
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