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Barack Obama

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44th President of the United States |
Incumbent |
Assumed office 
January 20, 2009 |
Vice President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | George W. Bush |
United States Senator
from Illinois |
In office
January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008 |
Preceded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
Succeeded by | Roland Burris |
Member of the Illinois Senate
from the 13th district|
In office
January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004 |
Preceded by | Alice Palmer |
Succeeded by | Kwame Raoul |
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Born | August 4, 1961 (1961-08-04) (age 48)[1]
Honolulu, Hawaii[2] |
Birth name | Barack Hussein Obama II[2] |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Michelle Obama (m. 1992) |
Children | Malia Ann (b. 1998)
Natasha (Sasha) (b. 2001) |Residence | The White House (official) Chicago, Illinois (private) |
Alma mater | Occidental College
Columbia University (B.A.)
Harvard Law School (J.D.) |
Ocupation | Community organizer
Lawyer
Constitutional law Professor
Author |
Religion | Christian[3] |
Signature | |
Website | The White House
Barack Obama |
This article is part of a series aboutBarack ObamaBackground  ·Illinois Senate  · U.S. Senate · Political positions · Public image · Family · 2008 primaries · Obama–Biden campaign · Transition · Inauguration · Electoral history · Presidency (Timeline, First 100 days)  · 2009 Nobel Peace Prize |
Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/  ( listen); born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first AfricanAmerican to hold the office, as well as the first president born in Hawaii. Obama previously served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicagobefore earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 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. During the campaign, severalevents brought him to national attention, such as his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary election for the United States Senator from Illinois as well as his prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004.
He began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. On October 9, 2009, Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States in front of the Old StateCapitol building in Springfield, IllinoisThe choice of the announcement site was viewed as symbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic "House Divided" speech in 1858. Throughout the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence and providing universal health care.
A large number of candidates entered theDemocratic Party presidential primaries. The field narrowed to a duel between Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton after early contests, with the race remaining close throughout the primary process but with Obama gaining a steady lead in pledged delegates due to better long-range planning, superior fundraising, dominant organizing in caucus states, and better exploitation of delegate allocation...