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Barack Hussein Obama II (US Listeni/b?'r??k hu?'se?n o?'b??m?/ b?-RAHK hoo-SAYN


oh-BAH-m?;[1][2] born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who is the 44th
and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to
be elected to the U.S. presidency and the first one born outside the contiguous
United States. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia Univers
ity and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He
was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked a
s a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chi
cago Law School from 1992 to 2004. While serving three terms representing the 13
th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, he ran unsuccessfully in t
he Democratic primary for the United States House of Representatives in 2000 aga
inst incumbent Bobby Rush.
In 2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent Illi
nois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party
primary, his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and
his election to the Senate in November. He began his presidential campaign in 20
07 and, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2008, he won s
ufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidentia
l nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general ele
ction, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months after h
is inauguration, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
During his first two years in office, Obama signed into law economic stimulus le
gislation in response to the Great Recession in the form of the American Recover
y and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauth
orization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Other major domestic initiatives in his
first term included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often refer
red to as "Obamacare"; the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection A
ct; and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. In foreign policy, Obama e
nded U.S. military involvement in the Iraq War, increased U.S. troop levels in A
fghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U.S. m
ilitary involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, and ordered the m
ilitary operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In January 2011
, the Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives as the Democr
atic Party lost a total of 63 seats; and, after a lengthy debate over federal sp
ending and whether or not to raise the nation's debt limit, Obama signed the Bud
get Control Act of 2011 and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.

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