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    Barack Obama

    President of the United States from 2009 to 2017

    For other uses, see Barack Obama (disambiguation).

    "Barack" and "Obama" redirect here. For other uses, see Barack (disambiguation) and Obama (disambiguation).

    Barack Obama

    Official portrait, 2012

    In office
    January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
    Vice PresidentJoe Biden
    Preceded byGeorge W. Bush
    Succeeded byDonald Trump
    In office
    January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008
    Preceded byPeter Fitzgerald
    Succeeded byRoland Burris
    In office
    January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004
    Preceded byAlice Palmer
    Succeeded byKwame Raoul
    Born

    Barack Hussein Obama II


    (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 63)
    Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
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    Barack Hussein Obama II[a] (born August 4,

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    Early life and career of Barack Obama

    Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii[1] to Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) (born in Oriang' Kogelo of Rachuonyo North District,[2]Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (1942–1995) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States).[3]

    Obama spent most of his childhood years in Honolulu, where his mother attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Obama had a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In 1965, his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. Two years later, Dunham took Obama with her to Indonesia to reunite him with his stepfather. In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979.

    As a young adult, Obama moved to the contiguous United States, where he was educated at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. In Chicago, Obama worked at various times as a

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    Barack Obama: Life in Brief

    Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States—becoming the first African American to serve in that office—on January 20, 2009.

    The son of a vit American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community en person eller ett verktyg som arrangerar eller strukturerar saker in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. In 2004, he was elected by a record majority to the US Senate from Illinois and, in February 2007, announced his candidacy for president. After winning a closely fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated medlem av senat John McCain of Ar