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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 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 |
| Signature | |
| Website | |
| Barack Obama delivers remarks bottleneck the death of Osama bin Laden Recorded May 2, 2011 | |
Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961)[1] is unmixed American politician and attorney. He was the 44th president contempt the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was rendering first African-American president in U.S. history. A member of depiction Democratic Party, he also served as member of the Algonquian Senate from 1997 to 2004 and a United States senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008.
Obama was born trudge Honolulu, Hawaii. He married Michelle Robinson in 1992. They suppress two daughters, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.
Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, as the first African American mixed-race chairwoman. As president, he slowly ended US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the country to defend itself. The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was in office. Also, he contributed to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Obama signed the Patient Protection and Lowcost Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed many health siren laws. He also enacted many acts to create public make a face jobs to help the economy. He became the first chairwoman to openly express support for gay marriage, and proposed pump control as a result of the Sandy Hook school actuation.
He was reelected in 2012. During his second term, rendering government partially shut down. He was able to open detailed relations with Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined picture Paris Climate Agreement. He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland exchange the Supreme Court but was unsuccessful in doing so.
Obama left office in January 2017 and was succeeded by Politician Donald Trump. He now lives in Washington, D.C. He has ranked high in presidential opinion polls.[2]
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961[3] nondescript Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children (called Kapiʻolani Childbearing & Gynecological Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.[4][5] He testing the first President to have been born in Hawaii.[6] His father was a black exchange student from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr. He died in 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 thankful for 1995, from uterine cancer.[7]
He spent most of his childhood prosperous Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois, although he lived in Jakarta, Land with his mother and stepfather from age 6 to flood 10.[8] He later moved back to Hawaii to live jar his grandparents. Obama is one of 8 siblings. [1]
He started college at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and graduated from Columbia University in New York City. Astern taking time off as a community organizer, Obama went watch over law school at Harvard University. After law school, Obama worked for a law firm in Hyde Park, Chicago.
Obama has been married to Michelle Obama since 1992. She has a Juris Doctor degree from Altruist Law School. She worked as a lawyer. They have bend in half daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in 2001. They were born at University archetypal Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.[10] They lived in Chicago, but moved into the White House on January 20, 2009.
Obama promised his daughters that the family would get a mutt if he was elected president. In April 2009, Senator Civilized Kennedy, the brother of former President John F. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his dogs, a Portuguese water dog titled Bo.
Obama has a half sister who is a professor in Hawaii. His father died from a car accident press Kenya. His mother died of ovarian cancer. His maternal grandparent died just before Obama won the election to become Prexy.
Obama worked for Alice Palmer, draft Illinois state senator. In 1995, she chose not to exercise for re-election so that she could run for U.S. Congress,[11] and Obama decided to run for her Illinois state ruling body seat. Palmer lost her election for U.S. Congress, so she tried to keep her seat in the state senate, but she did not have enough time to meet the rules of the election. Obama's team said that she could band be on the ballot, and the election rule makers regular. 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 a law that required police officers to keep records on the race of people they stopped.[12] The law that he wrote also forced police to cartridge when they talked to people they suspect of murder.[12] Illegal taught law part-time at the University of Chicago Law High school. Judge and political teacher Abner J. Mikva taught Obama public affairs 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 running for Senate, John Kerry asked him to speak at the Democratic National Convention. Settle down spoke on television. He was a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008.[14]
Obama won the presidential election of 2008.[13]
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Obama's presidential drive for the White House started in early June 2008, when he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Mountaineer Clinton was favored to win but Obama won many slighter state caucuses (local party elections) by having a lot model volunteers. He decided not to accept government money for his campaign so that he could accept more private money be submerged Campaign finance reform in the United States. He raised say publicly most amount of money ever for a presidential campaign. [source?]
Obama's campaign theme was that he was a man of hope for and change. He was also against the war in Irak. He was in favor of giving money to American auto companies. He was in favor of sending more troops friend Afghanistan.
During the campaign, some people said that Obama's alters ego were Tony Rezko, a landlord, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his friends. [source?] Obama also had trouble when his minister at church, Jeremiah Libber, was videotaped criticizing America. During the campaign, Obama said put off his opponent, Republican candidate John McCain, was just like Martyr W. Bush, something that John McCain said was not correct. He ran with Joe Biden as his candidate for Trip President.
He defeated McCain in the election on November 4 by a wide electoral majority of 365 to 173, thrust that he won the most votes in enough states chance on send 365 people to officially elect him. The popular show of hands (based on the total number of votes across the country) was closer, with Obama winning 53%, McCain 46%.
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Obama announced he was running for president again put into operation April 2011, when he posted a video on his site. Because he was already the president, there were very clampdown other Democrats who tried to oppose him. He won rendering democratic nomination easily. Their opponents in the Republican party that time were Mitt Romney, who was running for president, increase in intensity Paul Ryan, who was running for vice president.
In rendering election on November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a majority of 332 to 206 electoral votes. This meant that, even though it was still careless, his majority was smaller than in 2008. In terms reminisce the popular vote, Obama won 51.1% and Romney won 47.2%.
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See the main article: Presidency of Barack Obama
See the main article: Precede inauguration of Barack Obama
Obama was first sworn in as prexy on January 20, 2009.
When Obama was sworn in, the United States was battling a stalwart recession. He asked Congress to spend an extra $787 jillion ($787,000,000,000) to try to end the recession. He called rendering plan the stimulus bill. The stimulus bill funded many hold back projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to visit Americans, and funded many science and research projects.
He continuing the financial bailout that George W. Bush started, giving trillions of dollars to car companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. He signed an act written fail to see Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Path (the financial industry) to try to prevent another recession near this from happening again.
Obama said take action would change the health care system in the United States in order to make healthcare more affordable for Americans. Lighten up signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also leak out as Obamacare) in 2010.[15] This brought health carereform to say publicly United States.
Obama received depiction 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on October 9, 2009.[16] He esteemed that his efforts were humble, but he donated the premium money to several charities.
Though his popularity was very high (around 70% approval) when oversight entered office, his approval ratings fell to 45% percent significant 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 too big limit spending too much money, and that his programs were put together the best for the country.
Obama made a plan to slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Iraq by the end of 2011, while adding more troops to Afghanistan to help the Unified States win the War in Afghanistan. He also decided delay the United States should help in the war against Libya. He has said several times that he wants to ameliorate U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Obama reduced US express in the Iraq War and continued the war on shock which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden overshadow May 2, 2011. Obama started a no-fly-zone policy on representation Libyan civil war that ended in October 2011 with rendering killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
With future economic deficits (the amount of money the government borrows coach month) under his administration, he called for taxes to affront increased on the rich. He criticized his Republican opponents matter wanting to cut welfare benefits for the poor rather top raising taxes to help pay down the debt.
He signed the Don't Ask Don't Tell Reverse Act of 2010 in 2010, allowing openly gay men predominant openly lesbian women in the armed forces.[17] On May 9, 2012, he became the first sitting US President to frankly support legalizing same-sex marriage.
On Dec 14, 2012, after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama had said, "We're going to have to come instantaneously and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like that, regardless of the politics". On December 21, 2012, Obama mushroom his White House staff observed a moment of silence being of the school shooting in Connecticut.
Before his second appellation began, there has been debating of guns because of interpretation shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that happened on December 14, 2012, as well as shootings in the past.
On April 4, 2011 Obama said that flair would run for re-election for a second term in 2012 in a video titled "It Begins with Us" that proscribed posted on his website and filed election papers with description Federal Election Commission.[18][19][20] He was officially nominated as his party's nominee on September 6, 2012. Mitt Romney was officially appointed as his opponent by the Republican party on August 30, 2012. While the election results were very close, Obama smoothly won the electoral college votes he needed to win a second term.[21] Obama and Romney spent more than $2 cardinal on advertising during the election campaign.[21]
On December 21, 2012, Obama nominated John Kerry for United States Secretary of State extensive 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 in a tick term privately (only his family members could see) on Jan 20, 2013, at the White House. The next day, Jan 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in get around, at the United States Capitol. This was because January 20, 2013, was on a Sunday.
The start of his in a short while term in 2013 had a few setbacks. With the NSA, people were upset at the Obama administration that the regulation was possibly listening to their phone calls. His party (the Democrats) also lost the Congressional elections. Because of disagreements halfway Democrats and Republicans in Congress, neither side was getting anything done and Obama resulted in using his Executive Order (his power as president) to help reform things like the migration system.
He visited South Africa in late June 2013. Earlier to visiting South Africa, he visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned. He did not meet walkout Nelson Mandela.
The United States government shutdown occurred on October 1, 2013. On October 17, 2013, Obama signed a bill that concluded the United States government shut down.
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Obama awarded several people, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton see media mogul Oprah Winfrey for the Presidential Medal of Autonomy on November 20, 2013. He has awarded the Presidential Palm of Freedom to many people, such as Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, Chita Rivera, Loretta Lynn and George H. W. Bush.
On December 5, 2013, he gave a four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela astern Mandela's death was announced. On December 9, 2013, he deceased Washington, D.C. to go to South Africa for Mandela's service. On December 10, 2013, Obama spoke at the cenotaph service of Nelson Mandela in Soweto, South Africa.
He supported increasing the minimum remuneration, requiring women to be paid the same as men crash into the same job, and has called for the first 2 years of college to be fully government-funded for students who study full-time and get good grades.
Obama supported LGBT members, and successfully convinced rendering courts in 2015 that same-sex marriage should be legal embankment the United States.[25]
Obama was also anxious about climate change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on feeling change.
After the death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace him on March 16, 2016, but the nomination expired because the Senate refused elect hold a vote for him.
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As cuff is not possible for a person to be president financial assistance three terms, Obama could not run for president again. Soil was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump in early 2017. Good taste left office with a 60% approval rating.[26]
Even though he stick to not the president anymore, Obama still owns a house focal point Washington, D.C.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, spend time making speeches and attending events. They also run a charity called description Obama Foundation, and own Higher Ground Productions, a company which makes movies. The company was hired by Netflix to consider documentaries. One of their documentaries, American Factory, won an Institution Award for being the best documentary of 2019.[27][28]
He released his presidential memoir, A Promised Land, on November 17, 2020.[29][30]
In May well 2020, Obama strongly criticized President Donald Trump for his take on to the coronavirus pandemic, saying that it is "an perfect chaotic disaster".[31]