Life of Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (US:/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/bə-RAHK hoo-SAYN goodness BAH-mə;[1][2] conceived August 4, 1961) is an American lawmaker who filled in as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the primary African American to have filled in as president. He already served in the U.S. Senate speaking to Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004.
44th President of the United States
In office
January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
Vice President Joe Biden
Preceded by George W. Bush
Succeeded by Donald Trump
United States Senator
from Illinois
In office
January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008
Preceded by Peter Fitzgerald
Succeeded by Roland Burris
Member of the Illinois Senate
from the 13th district
In office
January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004
Preceded by Alice Palmer
Succeeded by Kwame Raoul
Personal details
Born Barack Hussein Obama II
August 4, 1961 (age 55)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Michelle Robinson (m. 1992)
Children
Malia Sasha
Parents
Barack Obama Sr.
Ann Dunham
Relatives See Family of Barack Obama
Education
Occidental College (transferred)
Columbia University (BA)
Harvard University (JD)
Awards Nobel Peace Prize (2009)
Profile in Courage Award (2017)
Signature
Website
Office of Barack and Michelle Obama
Obama Foundation
Organizing for Action
White House Archives (Archived)
Obama was conceived in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the region was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. Brought to a great extent up in Hawaii, Obama likewise burned through one year of his youth in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. Subsequent to moving on from Columbia University in 1983, he functioned as a group coordinator in Chicago. In 1988 Obama selected in Harvard Law School, where he was the primary dark leader of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he turned into a social equality lawyer and teacher, and showed protected law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama spoke to the thirteenth District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he kept running for the U.S. Senate. Obama got national consideration in 2004, with his unforeseen March essential win, his generally welcomed July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his avalanche November race to the Senate. In 2008, Obama was selected for president, a year after his crusade started, and after a nearby essential battle against Hillary Clinton. He was chosen over Republican John McCain, and was initiated on January 20, 2009. After nine months, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. images (3).jpg

Amid his initial two years in office, Obama marked numerous point of interest bills. Principle changes were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (frequently alluded to as "Obamacare"), the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 filled in as financial boost in the midst of the Great Recession, however the GOP recaptured control of the House of Representatives in 2011. After an extensive open deliberation over the national obligation confine, Obama marked the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In remote approach, Obama expanded U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, decreased atomic weapons with the U.S.- Russian New START arrangement, and finished military contribution in the Iraq War. He requested military association in Libya contrary to Muammar Gaddafi, and the military operation that brought about the demise of Osama container Laden. images (1).jpg

In the wake of winning re-race by vanquishing Republican rival Mitt Romney, Obama was confirmed for a moment term in 2013. Amid his second term, Obama advanced comprehensiveness for LGBT Americans, with his organization documenting briefs that asked the Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans as illegal (United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges). Obama supported for firearm control in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and issued colossal official activities concerning environmental change and migration. In outside arrangement, Obama requested military mediation in Iraq in light of increases made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, proceeded with the way toward closure U.S. battle operations in Afghanistan, elevated talks that prompted the 2015 Paris Agreement on worldwide environmental change, started sanctions against Russia following the intrusion in Ukraine and again after Russian obstruction in the 2016 United States decisions, facilitated an atomic manage Iran, and standardized U.S. relations with Cuba.

Obama left office in January 2017 with a normal endorsement rating of 57 percent.[3] He as of now lives in Washington, D.C. His presidential library will be worked in Chicago.