"Barack" and "Obama" redirect here. For his father, see [[:Barack Obama, Sr.]]. For other uses of "Barack", see [[:Barack (disambiguation)]]. For other uses of "Obama", see [[:Obama (disambiguation)]].
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January 20, 2009 |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Vice President | [[Joe Biden]] |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Preceded by | [[George W. Bush]] |- |-! colspan=2 style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | [[United States Senate|United States Senator]]
from [[Illinois]] |-|colspan=2 style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center"|'''In office'''
January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008 |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Preceded by | [[Peter Fitzgerald (politician)|Peter Fitzgerald]] |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Succeeded by | [[Roland Burris]] |-! colspan=2 style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | Member of the [[Illinois Senate]]
from the 13th district |-|colspan=2 style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center"|'''In office'''
January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004 |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Preceded by | [[Alice Palmer (politician)|Alice Palmer]] |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Succeeded by | [[Kwame Raoul]] |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- ! colspan=2 style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | Personal details |- |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Born | Barack Hussein Obama II
(1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 54)
[[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]], U.S. |- |- |- |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Nationality | American |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Political party | [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |- |- |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Spouse(s) | [[Michelle Obama|Michelle Robinson]] (m. 1992) |- |- |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Children | [[Family of Barack Obama#Immediate family|Malia]] and [[Family of Barack Obama#Immediate family|Sasha]] |- |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Residence | class="label" | [[White House]] |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Education | [[Punahou School]] |- ! style="text-align:left;" | [[Alma mater]] |
*[[Occidental College]] *[[Columbia University]] (B.A.) *[[Harvard Law School]] (J.D.)
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Incumbent ---- '''First Term''' * [[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008|Campaign for the Presidency]] **[[United States presidential election, 2008|2008]] * [[Presidential transition of Barack Obama|Transition]] * [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|1st inauguration]] * [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Presidency]] * [[First 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency|First 100 days]] * [[2009 Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Prize]] * [[Affordable Care Act]] * [[List of presidential trips made by Barack Obama|Foreign trips]] ** Timeline: [[Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2009)|'09]] ** [[Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2010)|'10]] ** [[Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2011)|'11]] ** [[Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2012)|'12]] ---- ---- '''Second Term''' * [[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012|Reelection]] **[[United States presidential election, 2012|2012]] **[[International reactions to the United States presidential election, 2012|Reactions]] * [[Second inauguration of Barack Obama|2nd inauguration]] * [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Presidency]] * [[Obama Doctrine]] * [[Immigration reform#Obama's executive actions of November 2014|Immigration executive action]] * [[Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action|Iran Deal]] * [[Cuban Thaw|Cuban Thaw]] ** Timeline: [[Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2013)|'13]] ** [[Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2014)|'14]] ** [[Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2015)|'15]] ---- * [[Electoral history of Barack Obama|Electoral history]] * ''[[The Audacity of Hope]]'' * [[Barack Obama Presidential Center|Planned Library]] [[File:Barack Obama signature.svg|120px]]
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|} '''Barack Hussein Obama II''' ([[American English|US]] [[File:Speakerlink-new.svg|11px|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-us-Barack-Hussein-Obama.ogg|Listen]][[:File:En-us-Barack-Hussein-Obama.ogg|i]][[Help:IPA for English|/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn ɵˈbɑːmə/]][[Category:Articles including recorded pronunciations]]; born August 4, 1961) is the [[List of Presidents of the United States|44th]] and [[Presidency of Barack Obama|current]] [[President of the United States]], and the [[List of African-American firsts|first]] [[African American]] to hold the office. Born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], Obama is a graduate of [[Columbia University]] and [[Harvard Law School]], where he served as president of the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''. He was a [[Community organizing|community organizer]] in Chicago before earning his [[Juris Doctor|law degree]]. He worked as a [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] attorney and taught [[constitutional law]] at [[University of Chicago Law School]] from 1992 to 2004. He [[Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama|served three terms]] representing the 13th District in the [[Illinois Senate]] from 1997 to 2004, [[Illinois's 1st congressional district election, 2000|running unsuccessfully]] for the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 2000. In 2004, Obama received national attention during his [[United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004|campaign to represent Illinois]] in the [[United States Senate]] with his victory in the March [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] [[Primary election|primary]], his [[2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address|keynote address]] at the [[2004 Democratic National Convention|Democratic National Convention]] in July, and his election to the Senate in November. He began his presidential campaign in 2007 and, after [[Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008|a close primary campaign]] against [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] in 2008, he won sufficient delegates in the [[Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008|Democratic Party primaries]] to receive the presidential nomination. He then defeated [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee [[John McCain]] in the [[United States presidential election, 2008|general election]], and was [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|inaugurated as president]] on January 20, 2009. Nine months after his inauguration, Obama was named the [[2009 Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate. During his first two years in office, Obama signed into law [[Stimulus (economics)|economic stimulus]] legislation in response to the [[Great Recession]] in the form of the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009]] and the [[Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010]]. Other major domestic initiatives in his first term included the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]], often referred 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]]. In foreign policy, Obama [[Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq|ended U.S. military involvement]] in the [[Iraq War]], increased U.S. troop levels in [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], signed the [[New START]] arms control treaty with Russia, ordered [[2011 military intervention in Libya|U.S. military involvement in Libya]] in opposition to [[Muammar Gaddafi]], and ordered the military operation that resulted in the [[death of Osama bin Laden]]. In January 2011, [[United States midterm elections, 2010|the Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives]] as the Democratic Party lost a total of 63 seats; and, after a lengthy debate over federal spending and whether or not to raise the nation's [[United States debt ceiling|debt limit]], Obama signed the [[Budget Control Act of 2011]] and the [[American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012]]. Obama was [[United States presidential election, 2012|reelected president]] in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee [[Mitt Romney]], and was [[Second inauguration of Barack Obama|sworn in for a second term]] on January 20, 2013. During his second term, Obama has promoted domestic policies related to gun control in response to the [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]], and has called for greater inclusiveness for [[LGBT community|LGBT]] Americans, while his administration has filed briefs which urged the [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] to strike down part of the federal [[Defense of Marriage Act]] and state level [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|same-sex marriage]] bans as unconstitutional. In foreign policy, Obama ordered [[2014 American intervention in Iraq|U.S. military intervention in Iraq]] in response to [[Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)|gains made]] by the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] after the [[Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq|2011 withdrawal from Iraq]], continued the process of [[Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan|ending U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan]], and [[Cuban Thaw|normalized]] [[Cuba–United States relations|U.S. relations with Cuba]]. ==Early life and career==
Main articles: [[Family of Barack Obama]] and [[Early life and career of Barack Obama]]
Obama was born on August 4, 1961,{{cite web|year=2008|title=President Barack Obama|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=The White House|url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama|accessdate=December 12, 2008}} at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital (now [[Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children|Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children]]) in [[Honolulu]], Hawaii,{{cite news|author=Maraniss, David|date=August 24, 2008|title=Though Obama had to leave to find himself, it is Hawaii that made his rise possible|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=A22|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082301620.html|accessdate=October 28, 2008}}{{cite news|author=Nakaso, Dan|date=December 22, 2008 |title=Twin sisters, Obama on parallel paths for years|newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser|page=B1| url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Dec/22/ln/hawaii812220320.html|accessdate=January 22, 2011}} and would become the first President to have been born in Hawaii.{{cite web|author=Rudin, Ken|date=December 23, 2009|title=Today's Junkie segment on TOTN: a political review Of 2009|work=Talk of the Nation (Political Junkie blog)|publisher=NPR|url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/12/todays_junkie_segment_on_totn_5.html|accessdate=April 18, 2010|quote=We began with the historic inauguration on January 20—yes, the first president ever born in Hawaii}} His mother, [[Ann Dunham|Stanley Ann Dunham]], born in [[Wichita, Kansas]], was of mostly English ancestry.Obama (1995, 2004), p. 12. His father, [[Barack Obama, Sr.]], was a [[Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania|Luo]] from [[Nyang’oma Kogelo|Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya]]. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a [[Russian language]] class at the [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]], where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.{{cite news|author=Jones, Tim|date=March 27, 2007|title=Barack Obama: Mother not just a girl from Kansas; Stanley Ann Dunham shaped a future senator|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|page=1 (Tempo)|url=http://servv89pn0aj.sn.sourcedns.com/~gbpprorg/obama/barack.mother.txt}}Obama (1995, 2004), pp. 9–10. * Scott (2011), pp. 80–86. * Jacobs (2011), pp. 115–118. * Maraniss (2012), pp. 154–160. The couple married in [[Wailuku]] on [[Maui]] on February 2, 1961,{{cite news |author=Ripley, Amanda |date=April 9, 2008 |title=The story of Barack Obama's mother |work=Time |location =New York |url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524,00.html |accessdate=April 9, 2007}}Scott (2011), p. 86. * Jacobs (2011), pp. 125–127. * Maraniss (2012), pp. 160–163. and separated when, in late August 1961, Obama's mother moved with their newborn son to attend the [[University of Washington]] in Seattle for one year. During that time, Obama, Sr. completed his undergraduate economics degree in Hawaii in June 1962, then left to attend graduate school at [[Harvard University]] on a scholarship. Obama's parents divorced in March 1964.Scott (2011), pp. 87–93. * Jacobs (2011), pp. 115–118, 125–127, 133–161. * Maraniss (2012), pp. 170–183, 188–189. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1964 where he remarried; he visited Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971.Scott (2011), pp. 142–144. * Jacobs (2011), pp. 161–177, 227–230. * Maraniss (2012), pp. 190–194, 201–209, 227–230. He died in an automobile accident in 1982, his son being 21 years old at that time.{{cite news |author=Ochieng, Philip |date=November 1, 2004 |title=From home squared to the US Senate: how Barack Obama was lost and found |newspaper=The EastAfrican |location =Nairobi |url=http://www.nationmedia.com/EastAfrican/01112004/Features/PA2-11.html |archivedate=September 27, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223905/http://www.nationmedia.com/EastAfrican/01112004/Features/PA2-11.html}} * {{cite news |author=Merida, Kevin |date=December 14, 2007 |title=The ghost of a father |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=A12 |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/12/13/ST2007121301893.html |accessdate=June 25, 2008}} * Jacobs (2011), pp. 251–255. * Maraniss (2012), pp. 411–417. == Legislative career, 1997–2008 == Blank section. == Presidential_campaigns == Blank section. == Presidency (2009–present) == Blank section. == Cultural and political image == Blank section. == Family and personal life == Blank section. == Notes and references == Blank section. == External links == Blank section. 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