Barack Obama

NAME: His name is Barack Obama
NATIONALITY: Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
STUDIES: Obama is a graduate ofColumbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. And alsotaught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
PROFFESSION: He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago
PERSONAL INFORMATION: Obama served three terms in theIllinois 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. His victory from a crowded field inthe March 2004 Democratic primary raised his visibility, and his prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 made him a rising star nationally in theDemocratic Party. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 by the largest margin in Illinois history. He began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination, becoming the first major party African American candidate for president. In the 2008 general election,he defeated Republican candidate John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college inHawaii. When Suharto, a military leader in Soetoro's home country, came to power in 1967, all Indonesian students studying abroad were recalled, and the family moved to the island nation. From ages six toten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School and St. Francis of Assisi School.In 1971, he returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and...