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BARACK OBAMA Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning hislaw 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. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.
In 2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to representIllinois 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 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic party primaries to receivethe presidential nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was re-elected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013.[4]
Early in his first term inoffice, Obama signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to the 2007–2009 recession in the United States in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Other major domestic initiatives in his first term include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; the Dodd–FrankWall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010; the Budget Control Act of 2011; and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. In foreign policy, Obama ended U.S. military involvement in the Iraq War, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U.S. military involvement in Libya, and ordered themilitary operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In May 2012, he became the first sitting U.S. president to publicly support allowing same-sex couples to legally marry.

Hillary Clinton Biography (Hillary Rodham Clinton): United States Senator of the Democratic Party
Famous for : being the wife of former president of the United States Bill Clinton and for pursuing her ownpolitical career as a New York Senator for the Democratic Party. Hillary is also a candidate for American president in the United States presidential election of 2008 for the Democratic Party.
Clinton details : Born - October 26, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, USA / Lives - United States of America
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Hillary Clinton is most famous for being the wife of the 42nd President of theUnited States of America, Bill Clinton. She has also pursued her own career in politics more recently by becoming a Senator for New York. Senator Clinton is also running to be nominated for the presidential election in 2008 for the Democratic party.

She was born as Hillary Diane Rodham in Chicago, Illinois on the 26th of October, 1947. Her parents were the homemaker Dorothy Rodham and the smallbusinessman Hugh Rodham. Hillary also has two brothers: Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, Jr. and Tony Rodham.

Hillary graduated from the Wellesley College and Yale Law School. She was interested in politics from an early age, with a leaning towards Republican views at sixteen years of age. It was during her studies at the Wellesley College in Massachusetts that she began to think more liberally, and...
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