Barack Obama
Join President Obama in the Oval Office
Barack Hussein Obama II is the first African-American to be elected President of the United States and is the forty-fourth president.
Obama is a graduate of both Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has worked as a community organizer, practiced as a civil rights attorney and has also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
- 1961: Born in Hawaii, U.S.A.
- 1983: Graduates from Columbia University
- 1985: Moves to Chicago to become a community organiser
- 1991: Graduates from Harvard Law School
Returns to Chicago to practice civil rights law
- 1992: Marries Michelle Robinson
- 1995: Runs and wins the Illinois State Seat
- 1998: Daughter Malia born
- 2001: Daughter Sasha born
- 2004: Gives keynote address at Democratic
National Convention and this widely broadens his popularity and fame
- 2007: Announces his run for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States
- 2008: Wins the bid for Democratic Nomination for President
Elected President of the United States on November 4
- 2009: January 20 – Inauguration Day
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