Barack Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have been elected to the office.
Barack Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have held the office and the first president born outside the contiguous United States. Obama previously served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya. He was raised in a multicultural family and attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard, Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
In 2008, Obama was elected President of the United States. During his two terms in office, Obama implemented the Affordable Care Act, ended the Iraq War, and signed the Paris Climate Agreement. He also worked to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world and to normalize relations with Cuba.
Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2017.
Obama is a best-selling author and has written several books, including Dreams from My Father, The Audacity of Hope, and A Promised Land. He is also a public speaker and has given lectures at universities around the world.
Since leaving office, Obama has continued to be active in public life. He has founded the Obama Foundation, which works to empower people to create change in their communities. He has also been involved in various initiatives to promote civic engagement and to fight climate change.