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President Barack Obama
Personal
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he was raised by his mother, Ann, and maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. His motherlater married Lolo Soetoro, and his sister Maya was born in 1970. (He also has several siblings on his father’s side.)
Obama moved with his family to Indonesia in 1967, where he attended local Indonesian schools and received additional lessons via U.S. correspondence courses under his mother’s direction.
He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in 1971 and attended Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979. Obama first attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1983.
After graduation, Obama briefly worked as an analyst at Business International
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Barack Obama
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
For other uses, see Barack Obama (disambiguation).
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In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | |
Vice President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | George W. Bush |
Succeeded by | Donald Trump |
In office January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008 | |
Preceded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
Succeeded by | Roland Burris |
In office January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004 | |
Preceded by | Alice Palmer |
Succeeded by | Kwame Raoul |
Born | Barack Hussein Obama II (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 63) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
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Barack Hussein Obama II[a] (born August 4,
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Presidency of Barack Obama
U.S. presidential administration from 2009 to 2017
For a chronological guide, see Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency.
Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, took office following his victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney, to win re-election. Obama is the first African American president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president,[a] and the first president born in Hawaii. Obama was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who won the 2016 presidential election. Historians and political scientists rank him among the upper tier in historical rankings of American presidents.
Obama's accomplishments during the first 100 days of his presidency i