Biography
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961), known professionally as Barack Obama, is an American politician. He served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is also the first black president of the United States.
Barack Obama dropped out of Columbia University. He worked as a community organizer in Chicago. Then, in 1988, he entered Law School and served as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Returning to politics, he served from 1997 to 2004 in the Illinois Senate when he ran for senator.
With Barack Obama’s victory in the Senate primary in March, his well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his landslide Senate victory in November, Barack Obama rose to national prominence in 2004.
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| Real name: | Barack Hussein Obama II |
| Stage name: | Barack Obama |
| Born: | August 4, 1961 (age 63) |
| Place of birth: | Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| Nationality: | American, Kenyan |
| Height: | 1.87 minutes |
| Parents: | Barack Obama Sr., Stanley Ann Dunham |
| Siblings: | Auma Obama, Maya Soetoro-Ng, George Obama, Malik Obama, Bernard Obama, Abo Obama, David Ndesandjo, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo |
| Wife • Husband/wife: | Michelle Obama (married 1992) |
| Girlfriend • Partner: | Do not have |
| The children: | Malia Ann Obama and Sasha Obama |
| Job: | Politician |
| Net worth: | 48 million US dollars |
Early life and education
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, HI, Hawaii on August 4, 1961.
He was the first and only President of the United States born outside the 48 contiguous states.
Stanley Ann Dunham, his mother, had English, German, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. In 1960, she met Barack Obama Sr. in a Russian class at the University of Hawaii at Manila, where he was a scholarship student.
Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan, was married at the time. In 1961, Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham married. Six months later, Barack Obama was born.
After divorcing Stanley Ann Dunham in 1964, Barack Obama Sr. returned to Kenya and remarried. After returning to the United States, Barack Obama Sr. only visited Barack Obama. However, Barack Obama’s father died in a tragic car accident.
At the time, Barack Obama was 21 years old. Stanley Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian, in March 1965. Lolo Soetoro returned to Indonesia when his visa extension application was denied. In 1967, Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama joined him there.
Barack Obama was born in Indonesia and lived there until 1971, when he returned to Honolulu to live with his grandparents. He graduated from high school there in 1979. Lolo and Ann were married until 1980. Unfortunately, she passed away in 1995 after a long battle with cancer.
Barack Obama has several half-siblings. Barack Obama’s siblings are Auma Obama, Maya Soetoro-Ng, George Obama, Malik Obama, Bernard Obama, Abo Obama, David Ndesandjo, and Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo. He moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school in 1979 to attend Occidental College, where he received a full scholarship.
He transferred to Columbia University in 1981 and received a BA in political science with a concentration in international relations. He received his BA from Columbia University in 1983. He worked for Business International Corporation as a financial researcher for a year, then worked for various non-profit organizations in New York as a project organizer.
Barack Obama moved to Chicago in 1985 after being appointed director of the Community Development Project, a nonprofit organization. He worked there from 1985 to 1988. He spent two months traveling the world in 1988, including five weeks in Kenya visiting relatives.
In the fall of 1987, Barack Obama attended Harvard Law School, where he became president of the Harvard Law Review.
He returned to Chicago to continue working as a community organizer during the summer. Barack Obama worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago after graduation.
Career
In February 2007, Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign in front of the Old State Capitol building in Illinois. The location chosen for the announcement was notable because it was also the site of Abraham Lincoln’s landmark “House Divided” speech in 1858.
In a campaign that featured themes of optimism and change, Barack Obama emphasized issues such as ending the Iraq War quickly, improving energy independence, and reforming the health care system.
The Democratic presidential primary attracted a large number of candidates. After initial contests, the race narrowed to a two-way contest between Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton. The race remained tight throughout the primary, but Barack Obama maintained a solid lead.
Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race on June 7, 2008, and endorsed Barack Obama.
Barack Obama announced his selection of Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his vice presidential candidate on August 23, 2008. Barack Obama selected Joe Biden from a field of candidates that included former Indiana Governor and Senator Evan Bayh and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.
Hillary Clinton urged her supporters to support Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, and both she and Bill Clinton gave speeches in his support at the convention. Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech before an estimated 84,500 people at Invesco Field at Mile High; the speech was viewed by more than three million people worldwide.
Barack Obama’s campaign broke several fundraising records in both the primaries and the general election, notably in the number of small donations. On June 19, 2008, he became the first major party presidential candidate since the system’s inception in 1976 to reject public funding in the general election.
John McCain was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate, and Sarah Palin was chosen as his running mate. In September and October 2008, Barack Obama and John McCain had three presidential debates.
On November 4, Barack Obama was elected president with 365 electoral votes to John McCain’s 173. He received 52.9 percent of the vote, while John McCain received 45.7 percent. He was the first black president of the United States.
At Grant Park in Chicago, Barack Obama gave his victory speech before hundreds of thousands of adoring fans. He is one of three U.S. senators to have gone straight from the Senate to the White House, along with Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy.
Barack Obama took office as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009. During his first days in office, he issued executive orders and presidential memoranda ordering the United States military to begin planning for the evacuation of troops from Iraq.
He ordered the closure of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, but Congress blocked him by refusing to provide the necessary funds and refusing to relocate any of the prisoners. Barack Obama loosened restrictions on the privacy of presidential records.
Barack Obama also rescinded President George W. Bush’s order reinstating President Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City policy, which prohibited federal funding for international family planning groups that perform or provide abortion counseling.
Personal life
Barack Obama worked at Sidley Austin, a Chicago law firm, in the summer of 1989. Michelle Obama, an associate, was appointed as his adviser for three months, starting in June.
They began dating soon after and became engaged in 1991. On October 3, 1992, they were married.
Their marriage is blessed with two children. Malia Ann Obama, born in 1998, and Sasha Obama, born in 2001, are their two daughters.
Net worth
Barack Obama Net Worth and Salary: Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States and a former Senator from Illinois. He is the first African-American president of the United States, serving one term in the Illinois Senate.
Barack Obama’s net worth is $48 million as of this writing. For most of their adult lives, the Obamas were not wealthy. When Barack Obama entered the political spotlight in 2005, they initially became millionaires through book sales.
Social media
- Twitter: @BarackObama
- Instagram: @barackobama
- Facebook: @barackobama
