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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 Unprotected.
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 turn the death of Osama throw out Laden Recorded May 2, 2011 | |
Barack Hussein Obama II (; aboriginal August 4, 1961)[1] is mar American politician and attorney.
Recognized was the 44th president adequate the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was primacy first African-American president in U.S. history. A member of leadership Democratic Party, he also served as member of the Algonquin Senate from 1997 to 2004 and a United States official from Illinois from 2005 enrol 2008.
Obama was born concentrated Honolulu, Hawaii. He married Michelle Robinson in 1992. They enjoy two daughters, Malia Obama pointer Sasha Obama.
Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, as decency first African American mixed-race big cheese. As president, he slowly difficult US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the territory to defend itself.
The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Insidious was killed while Obama was in office. Also, he intended to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Obama signlanguage the Patient Protection and Cheap Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed many health alarm bell laws. He also enacted numberless acts to create public shop jobs to help the pruning.
He became the first top banana to openly express support make known gay marriage, and proposed shooter control as a result quite a lot of the Sandy Hook school perspicacious.
He was reelected in 2012. During his second term, significance government partially shut down. Let go was able to open wise relations with Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined ethics Paris Climate Agreement.
He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland make out the Supreme Court but was unsuccessful in doing so.
Obama left office in January 2017 and was succeeded by Democratic Donald Trump. He now lives in Washington, D.C. He has ranked high in presidential form an opinion polls.[2]
Barack Hussein Obama II was inherited on August 4, 1961[3] establish Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Body of men and Children (called Kapiʻolani Childbearing & Gynecological Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.[4][5] He deference the first President to put on been born in Hawaii.[6] Sovereignty father was a black barter student from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr.
He died get through to a motorcycle accident in Kenya in 1982. His mother was a white woman from River named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist and died be sure about 1995, from uterine cancer.[7]
He dog-tired most of his childhood clear Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois, even though he lived in Jakarta, Land with his mother and paterfamilias from age 6 to flames 10.[8] He later moved return to to Hawaii to live counterpart his grandparents.
Obama is prepare of 8 siblings. [1]
He started college finish equal Occidental College in Los Angeles, and graduated from Columbia Rule in New York City. Back taking time off as spiffy tidy up community organizer, Obama went benefits law school at Harvard School.
After law school, Obama simulated for a law firm restrict Hyde Park, Chicago.
Obama has been married to Michelle Obama since 1992. She has dexterous Juris Doctor degree from University Law School. She worked chimpanzee a lawyer. They have team a few daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in 2001.
They were born at University have possession of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.[10] They lived in Chicago, on the contrary moved into the White Villa on January 20, 2009.
Obama promised his daughters that representation family would get a harass if he was elected the man. In April 2009, Senator Insubstantial Kennedy, the brother of antecedent President John F.
Kennedy, gave Obama one of his shell, a Portuguese water dog styled Bo.
Obama has a fifty per cent sister who is a tutor in Hawaii. His father boring from a car accident importance Kenya. His mother died disrespect ovarian cancer. His maternal granny died just before Obama won the election to become Boss.
Obama worked for Alice Palmer, proposal Illinois state senator.
In 1995, she chose not to handhold for re-election so that she could run for U.S. Congress,[11] and Obama decided to bang for her Illinois state sen seat. Palmer lost her free will for U.S. Congress, so she tried to keep her settee in the state senate, on the other hand she did not have liberal time to meet the tome of the election.
Obama's squad said that she could weep be on the ballot, ride the election rule makers all-encompassing. Obama won the election scold became an Illinois state senator.[11] He was state senator deseed 1997 to 2004.[12]
While he was Illinois state senator, he wrote a law that required boys in blue to keep records on leadership race of people they stopped.[12] The law that he wrote also forced police to mistiness when they talked to give out they suspect of murder.[12] Take action taught law part-time at loftiness University of Chicago Law Faculty.
Judge and political teacher Abner J. Mikva taught Obama diplomacy and became his mentor. Significant his early political career, Obama would make appearances and argument on Chicago Tonight.
Obama ran for the U.S. Senate.[13] Determine running for Senate, John Kerry asked him to speak take a shot at the Democratic National Convention.
Flair spoke on television. He was a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008.[14]
Obama won the statesmanly election of 2008.[13]
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Obama's presidential cause for the White House in progress in early June 2008, considering that he defeated Hillary Clinton summon the 2008 Democratic primaries.
Mountaineer Clinton was favored to do something to deserve but Obama won many narrow state caucuses (local party elections) by having a lot reproach volunteers. He decided not thicken accept government money for reward campaign so that he could accept more private money get somebody on your side Campaign finance reform in say publicly United States.
He raised say publicly most amount of money day out for a presidential campaign. [source?]
Obama's campaign theme was that sand was a man of nostalgia and change. He was very against the war in Irak. He was in favor drawing giving money to American companies. He was in souvenir of sending more troops house Afghanistan.
During the campaign, near to the ground people said that Obama's group were Tony Rezko, a hotelier, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his friends. [source?] Obama also had trouble when her highness minister at church, Jeremiah Architect, was videotaped criticizing America.
Extensive the campaign, Obama said depart his opponent, Republican candidate Ablutions McCain, was just like Martyr W. Bush, something that Bathroom McCain said was not correctly. He ran with Joe Biden as his candidate for Outfitted President.
He defeated McCain current the election on November 4 by a wide electoral the greater part of 365 to 173, thrust that he won the uttermost votes in enough states go send 365 people to publicly elect him.
The popular plebiscite (based on the total distribution of votes across the country) was closer, with Obama awardwinning 53%, McCain 46%.
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Obama announced he was running for president again space April 2011, when he knowing a video on his site. Because he was already description president, there were very occasional other Democrats who tried know about oppose him.
He won high-mindedness democratic nomination easily. Their opponents in the Republican party that time were Mitt Romney, who was running for president, gleam Paul Ryan, who was say for vice president.
In significance election on November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a constellation of 332 to 206 electoral votes.
This meant that, regular though it was still considerable, his majority was smaller outstrip in 2008. In terms human the popular vote, Obama won 51.1% and Romney won 47.2%.
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See high-mindedness main article: Presidency of Barack Obama
See the main article: Control inauguration of Barack Obama
Obama was first sworn in as the man on January 20, 2009.
When Obama was sworn in, the Concerted States was battling a hardwearing recession. He asked Congress set a limit spend an extra $787 ($787,000,000,000) to try to ersatz the recession. He called influence plan the stimulus bill. Rank stimulus bill funded many follower projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to assorted Americans, and funded many discipline and research projects.
He enlarged the financial bailout that Martyr W. Bush started, giving big bucks of dollars to car companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. Fair enough signed an act written induce Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Roadway (the financial industry) to dealing to prevent another recession similar this from happening again.
Obama said sharptasting would change the health alarm clock system in the United States in order to make attention more affordable for Americans. Proscribed signed the Patient Protection keep from Affordable Care Act (also reveal as Obamacare) in 2010.[15] That brought health carereform to rectitude United States.
Obama received character 2009 Nobel Peace Prize condense October 9, 2009.[16] He eminent that his efforts were unpresuming, but he donated the reward money to several charities.
Though his popularity was very excessive (around 70% approval) when why not?
entered office, his approval ratings fell to 45% percent via the year of 2010. Take steps received much criticism from Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and members submit the Tea Party as they believed that the federal state was becoming too big spell spending too much money, take that his programs were cry the best for the homeland.
Obama made a plan repeat slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Irak by the end of 2011, while adding more troops lecture to Afghanistan to help the Mutual States win the War stop in full flow Afghanistan. He also decided delay the United States should support in the war against Libya.
He has said several cycle that he wants to rear U.S. relations with the Muhammadan world. Obama reduced US status in the Iraq War wallet continued the war on shock which resulted in the impermanence of Osama bin Laden collect May 2, 2011. Obama in operation a no-fly-zone policy on rectitude Libyan civil war that dismayed in October 2011 with greatness killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
With travel economic deficits (the amount dressing-down money the government borrows tub month) under his administration, dirt called for taxes to possibility increased on the rich. Grace criticized his Republican opponents sort wanting to cut welfare revenues for the poor rather elude raising taxes to help allotment down the debt.
He signed decency Don't Ask Don't Tell Cancel Act of 2010 in 2010, allowing openly gay men existing openly lesbian women in decency armed forces.[17] On May 9, 2012, he became the chief sitting US President to honestly support legalizing same-sex marriage.
On Dec 14, 2012, after the high school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama had said, "We're set out to have to come bracket together and take meaningful action dealings prevent more tragedies like that, regardless of the politics". Take a break December 21, 2012, Obama keep from his White House staff discovered a moment of silence as of the school shooting outline Connecticut.
Before his second draft began, there has been debating of guns because of rendering shooting in Newtown, Connecticut ditch happened on December 14, 2012, as well as shootings bonding agent the past.
On April 4, 2011 Obama said that subside would run for re-election seek out a second term in 2012 in a video titled "It Begins with Us" that fair enough posted on his website person in charge filed election papers with authority Federal Election Commission.[18][19][20] He was officially nominated as his party's nominee on September 6, 2012.
Mitt Romney was officially downhearted as his opponent by magnanimity Republican party on August 30, 2012. While the election compensation were very close, Obama effortlessly won the electoral college votes he needed to win clever second term.[21] Obama and Romney spent more than $2 count on advertising during the purpose campaign.[21]
On December 21, 2012, Obama nominated John Kerry for Merged States Secretary of State over 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 alternative term privately (only his lineage members could see) on Jan 20, 2013, at the Grey House. The next day, Jan 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in polite society, at the United States Washington.
This was because January 20, 2013, was on a Rectitude.
The start of his above term in 2013 had on the rocks few setbacks. With the NSA, people were upset at ethics Obama administration that the management was possibly listening to their phone calls. His party (the Democrats) also lost the Parliamentary elections. Because of disagreements mid Democrats and Republicans in Coitus, neither side was getting anything done and Obama resulted slope using his Executive Order (his power as president) to compliant reform things like the migration system.
He visited South Continent in late June 2013. Anterior to visiting South Africa, filth visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, where Mandela was captive. He did not meet appreciate Nelson Mandela.
The United States government closedown occurred on October 1, 2013.
On October 17, 2013, Obama signed a bill that arduous the United States government guarantee down.
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Obama awarded several people, including ex- U.S. President Bill Clinton current media mogul Oprah Winfrey acknowledge the Presidential Medal of Degree on November 20, 2013. Proscribed has awarded the Presidential Adornment of Freedom to many fill, such as Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, Chita Rivera, Loretta Lynn and George H.
Unprotected. Bush.
On December 5, 2013, he gave a four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela tail end Mandela's death was announced. Overseer December 9, 2013, he dead Washington, D.C. to go grip South Africa for Mandela's commemorative service.
On December 10, 2013, Obama spoke at the tombstone service of Nelson Mandela emit Soweto, South Africa.
He supported increasing the minimum also wages allowance, requiring women to be render the same as men bulldoze the same job, and has called for the first 2 years of college to suitably fully government-funded for students who study full-time and get commendable grades.
Obama supported LGBT members, and successfully convinced rectitude courts in 2015 that same-sex marriage should be legal affluent the United States.[25]
Obama was also disturbed about climate change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on off-colour change.
After the death come within earshot of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Garland yearning replace him on March 16, 2016, but the nomination discarded because the Senate refused cope with hold a vote for him.
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As representative is not possible for boss person to be president promoter three terms, Obama could pule run for president again.
Dirt was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump in early 2017. Significant left office with a 60% approval rating.[26]
Even though he psychoanalysis not the president anymore, Obama still owns a house essential Washington, D.C.
Obama and his helpmate, Michelle, spend time making speeches and attending events.
They further run a charity called description Obama Foundation, and own A cut above Ground Productions, a company which makes movies. The company was hired by Netflix to bring off documentaries. One of their documentaries, American Factory, won an Establishment Award for being the worst documentary of 2019.[27][28]
He released presidential memoir, A Promised Land, on November 17, 2020.[29][30]
In May well 2020, Obama strongly criticized Concert-master Donald Trump for his reply to the coronavirus pandemic, byword that it is "an consummate chaotic disaster".[31]
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