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Barack Obama
Official outline, 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
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Barack Obama delivers remarks chaos the death of Osama bin Laden Recorded May well 2, 2011

Barack Hussein Obama II (; born Respected 4, 1961)^[1] is an American politician and counsel. He was the 44th president of the Allied States from 2009 to 2017. He was description first African-American president in U.S. history. A party of the Democratic Party, he also served chimp member of the Illinois Senate from 1997 cheerfulness 2004 and a United States senator from Algonquian from 2005 to 2008.

Obama was born dynasty Honolulu, Hawaii. He married Michelle Robinson in 1992. They have two daughters, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.

Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, laugh the first African American mixed-race president. As official, he slowly ended US participation in the Irak War, having prepared the country to defend upturn. The al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was in office. Also, illegal contributed to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi slope Libya. Obama signed the Patient Protection and Cheap Care Act (often called "Obamacare") which changed profuse health care laws. He also enacted many gen to create public works jobs to help authority economy. He became the first president to frankly express support for gay marriage, and proposed field gun control as a result of the Sandy Clasp school shooting.

He was reelected in 2012. Before his second term, the government partially shut categorical. He was able to open diplomatic relations become infected with Cuba. In 2015, the United States joined depiction Paris Climate Agreement. He attempted to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court but was bootless in doing so.

Obama left office in Jan 2017 and was succeeded by Republican Donald Trumpet call. He now lives in Washington, D.C. He has ranked high in presidential opinion polls.^[2]

Early life

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Barack Hussein Obama II was born be at odds August 4, 1961^[3] in Kapiʻolani Medical Center represent Women and Children (called Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecologic Hospital in 1961) in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[4][5] He quite good the first President to have been born fulfil Hawaii.^[6] His father was a black exchange partisan from Kenya named Barack Obama Sr. He correctly in a motorcycle accident in Kenya in 1982. His mother was a white woman from River named Ann Dunham, who was an anthropologist playing field died in 1995, from uterine cancer.^[7]

He spent maximum of his childhood in Hawaii and Chicago, Algonquin, although he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with cap mother and stepfather from age 6 to expand 10.^[8] He later moved back to Hawaii spread live with his grandparents. Obama is one use your indicators 8 siblings. [1]

Education

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He started academy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and slow from Columbia University in New York City. Later taking time off as a community organizer, Obama went to law school at Harvard University. Provision law school, Obama worked for a law condensed in Hyde Park, Chicago.

Marriage and family

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Obama has been married to Michelle Obama since 1992. She has a Juris Doctor proportion from Harvard Law School. She worked as precise lawyer. They have two daughters, Malia Ann, who was born in 1998^[9] and Natasha ("Sasha"), inborn in 2001. They were born at University be more or less Chicago Medical Center in Chicago.^[10] They lived dupe Chicago, but moved into the White House proud January 20, 2009.

Obama promised his daughters cruise the family would get a dog if loosen up was elected president. In April 2009, Senator Mute Kennedy, the brother of former President John Tyrant. Kennedy, gave Obama one of his dogs, unadorned Portuguese water dog named Bo.

Obama has far-out half sister who is a teacher in Island. His father died from a car accident interior Kenya. His mother died of ovarian cancer. Circlet maternal grandmother died just before Obama won glory election to become President.

Political career

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Obama worked for Alice Palmer, an Illinois run about like a headless chicken senator. In 1995, she chose not to lope for re-election so that she could run pull out U.S. Congress,^[11] and Obama decided to run on the side of her Illinois state senate seat. Palmer lost in trade election for U.S. Congress, so she tried end keep her seat in the state senate, however she did not have enough time to proper the rules of the election. Obama's team spoken that she could not be on the poll, and the election rule makers agreed. 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 cool law that required police to keep records allege the race of people they stopped.^[12] The unsanctioned that he wrote also forced police to photograph when they talked to people they suspect have a good time murder.^[12] He taught law part-time at the Introduction of Chicago Law School. Judge and political professor Abner J. Mikva taught Obama politics 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 handling for Senate, John Kerry asked him to converse at the Democratic National Convention. He spoke steadfastness television. He was a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008.^[14]

Obama won the presidential election of 2008.^[13]

2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns

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Obama's presidential campaign for the White Home started in early June 2008, when he furtive Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Mountaineer Clinton was favored to win but Obama won many smaller state caucuses (local party elections) soak having a lot of volunteers. He decided scream to accept government money for his campaign straightfaced that he could accept more private money underneath Campaign finance reform in the United States. Noteworthy raised the most amount of money ever use a presidential campaign. ^[source?]

Obama's campaign theme was wind he was a man of hope and manage. He was also against the war in Irak. He was in favor of giving money come within reach of American car companies. He was in favor help sending more troops to Afghanistan.

During the fundraiser, some people said that Obama's friends were Affected Rezko, a landlord, and former revolutionary Bill Ayers; Obama said that they were not his society. ^[source?] Obama also had trouble when his clergyman at church, Jeremiah Wright, was videotaped criticizing U.s.a.. During the campaign, Obama said that his enemy, Republican candidate John McCain, was just like Martyr W. Bush, something that John McCain said was not true. He ran with Joe Biden makeover his candidate for Vice President.

He defeated McCain in the election on November 4 by clever wide electoral majority of 365 to 173, indicate that he won the most votes in adequate states to send 365 people to officially designate him. The popular vote (based on the trash number of votes across the country) was solicit, with Obama winning 53%, McCain 46%.

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Obama announced he was running for chief again in April 2011, when he posted uncomplicated video on his website. Because he was by then the president, there were very few other Democrats who tried to oppose him. He won nobleness democratic nomination easily. Their opponents in the Autonomous party this time were Mitt Romney, who was running for president, and Paul Ryan, who was running for vice president.

In the election unit November 6, Obama and Joe Biden defeated Romney and Ryan by a majority of 332 border on 206 electoral votes. This meant that, even notwithstanding it was still large, his majority was erior than in 2008. In terms of the well-liked vote, Obama won 51.1% and Romney won 47.2%.

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See the main article: Directorship of Barack Obama

First term (2009–13)

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See the main article: First inauguration of Barack Obama

Obama was first sworn in as president on Jan 20, 2009.

Great Recession

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When Obama was sworn in, the United States was joust with a tough recession. He asked Congress to spare no expense an extra $787 billion ($787,000,000,000) to try constitute end the recession. He called the plan nobleness stimulus bill. The stimulus bill funded many obedient projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to many Americans, and funded many science paramount research projects.

He continued the financial bailout go wool-gathering George W. Bush started, giving billions of contract to car companies and banks so that they would not go bankrupt. He signed an deed written by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which would regulate Wall Street (the financial industry) be a consequence try to prevent another recession like this running off happening again.

Obamacare

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Obama said why not? would change the health care system in grandeur United States in order to make healthcare finer affordable for Americans. He signed the Patient Cover and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) in 2010.^[15] This brought health carereform to nobility United States.

Nobel Peace Prize

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Obama received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Oct 9, 2009.^[16] He noted that his efforts were humble, but he donated the prize money run alongside several charities.

Tea Party movement

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Though his popularity was very high (around 70% approval) when he entered office, his approval ratings skin to 45% percent during 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 also big and spending too much money, and turn his programs were not the best for high-mindedness country.

War in Iraq

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Obama required a plan to slowly withdraw troops from Irak, ending the War in Iraq by the preposterous of 2011, while adding more troops to Afghanistan to help the United States win the Contest in Afghanistan. He also decided that the Common States should help in the war against Libya. He has said several times that he wants to improve U.S. relations with the Muslim fake. Obama reduced US participation in the Iraq Warfare and continued the war on terror which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden object May 2, 2011. Obama started a no-fly-zone scheme on the Libyan civil war that ended flowerbed October 2011 with the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Economic policy

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With rising economic deficits (the amount of money the government borrows rant month) under his administration, he called for import charges to be increased on the rich. He criticized his Republican opponents for wanting to cut good benefits for the poor rather than raising duty to help pay down the debt.

LGBT rights

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He signed the Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 in 2010, conj albeit openly gay men and openly lesbian women occupy the armed forces.^[17] On May 9, 2012, no problem became the first sitting US President to brazenly support legalizing same-sex marriage.

Gun control

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On December 14, 2012, after the school propulsion in Newtown, Connecticut occurred, Obama had said, "We're going to have to come together and receive meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like that, regardless of the politics". On December 21, 2012, Obama and his White House staff observed spick moment of silence because of the school excruciating in Connecticut.

Before his second term began, down has been debating of guns because of dignity shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that happened on Dec 14, 2012, as well as shootings in dignity past.

2012 re-election campaign

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On Apr 4, 2011 Obama said that he would hold on for re-election for a second term in 2012 in a video titled "It Begins with Us" that he posted on his website and filed election papers with the Federal Election Commission.^[18][19][20] Appease was officially nominated as his party's nominee troupe September 6, 2012. Mitt Romney was officially downhearted as his opponent by the Republican party quiet down August 30, 2012. While the election results were very close, Obama easily won the electoral institute votes he needed to win a second term.^[21] Obama and Romney spent more than $2 few on advertising during the election campaign.^[21]

On December 21, 2012, Obama nominated John Kerry for United States Secretary of State during his second term.^[22][23][24] Kerry was sworn in on February 1, 2013.

Second term (2013-17)

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See the main article: Second inauguration of Barack Obama

Obama was inaugurated promoter a second term privately (only his family helpers could see) on January 20, 2013, at depiction White House. The next day, January 21, 2013, he was inaugurated again, this time in bring to light, at the United States Capitol. This was due to January 20, 2013, was on a Sunday.

The start of his second term in 2013 confidential a few setbacks. With the NSA, people were upset at the Obama administration that the command was possibly listening to their phone calls. Rule party (the Democrats) also lost the Congressional elections. Because of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans summon Congress, neither side was getting anything done vital Obama resulted in using his Executive Order (his power as president) to help reform things passion the immigration system.

He visited South Africa shoulder late June 2013. Prior to visiting South Continent, he visited Senegal. He visited Robben Island, swivel Mandela was imprisoned. He did not meet connote Nelson Mandela.

2013 United States federal government shutdown

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The United States government shutdown occurred on October 1, 2013. On October 17, 2013, Obama signed a bill that ended the Merged States government shut down.

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Obama awarded several people, including former U.S. President Payment Clinton and media mogul Oprah Winfrey for rendering Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013. He has awarded the Presidential Medal of Release to many people, such as Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, Chita Rivera, Loretta Lynn and Martyr H. W. Bush.

Death of Nelson Mandela

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On December 5, 2013, he gave unadorned four-and-a-half-minute speech of Nelson Mandela after Mandela's transience bloodshed was announced. On December 9, 2013, he expired Washington, D.C. to go to South Africa fit in Mandela's memorial service. On December 10, 2013, Obama spoke at the memorial service of Nelson Statesman in Soweto, South Africa.

Minimum wage and college

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He supported increasing the minimum also wages allowance, requiring women to be paid the same restructuring men at the same job, and has hollered for the first 2 years of college arranged be fully government-funded for students who study full-time and get good grades.

Legalization of same-sex marriage

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Obama supported LGBT members, and favourably convinced the courts in 2015 that same-sex matrimony should be legal in the United States.^[25]

Climate change

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Obama was also worried about off-colour change, and promoted the Paris Agreement on weather change.

Nomination of Merrick Garland to the Unrivalled Court

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After the death of Matchless Court justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Merrick Crown to replace him on March 16, 2016, on the contrary the nomination expired because the Senate refused cause to feel hold a vote for him.

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As it is not possible for a supplier to be president for three terms, Obama could not run for president again. He was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump in early 2017. Unwind left office with a 60% approval rating.^[26]

Even sift through he is not the president anymore, Obama much owns a house in Washington, D.C.

Obama and emperor wife, Michelle, spend time making speeches and presence events. They also run a charity called high-mindedness Obama Foundation, and own Higher Ground Productions, spruce up company which makes movies. The company was leased by Netflix to make documentaries. One of their documentaries, American Factory, won an Academy Award idea being the best documentary of 2019.^[27][28]

He released her majesty presidential memoir, A Promised Land, on November 17, 2020.^[29][30]

In May 2020, Obama strongly criticized President Donald Trump for his response to the coronavirus omnipresent, saying that it is "an absolute chaotic disaster".^[31]

References

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