ABOUT BARACKOBAMA obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law
School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community
organizer in Chicago before
earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and
also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law
School from 1992 to 2004.Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 t 2004. Following an
unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of
Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for United States Senate
in 2004. His victory from a crowded field in the March 2004 Democratic
primary raised his visibility, and his prime-time televised keynote
address at the Democratic National
Convention in July 2004made him a rising star nationally in the Democratic Party. He was elected to the
U.S. Senate in November 2004 by the largest margin in Illinois history.He began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008
Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary
Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination, becoming the first major party African American
candidate for president. In the 2008 general
election, he defeated Republican candidate John McCain and was inaugurated as president on
January 20, 2009.
Earlylife and career ! {+}Earlylife and career of
Obama
Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani
Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States,to Stanley Ann Dunham,an American of
mainly English descent from Wichita, Kansas,and Barack Obama, Sr.,
a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa,
where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.The couple married on February 2, 1961,and
Barack was born later that year. His parents separated when he was two years
old, and they divorced in 1964.Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in
an automobile accident in 1982.After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college in Hawaii.
When Suharto, a military leader in
Soetoro's home country, came to power in 1967, all
Indonesian students studying abroad were recalled, and the family moved to the
island nation.From ages six to
ten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School and St. Francis
of Assisi School. place : wikipedia
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