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Date of birth: 04.08.1961

Childhood. Education. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was born in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii. His parents met at the University of Hawaii. His father, a black Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama Sr., came to the United States to study economics. Mother, white American Stanley Ann Dunham, studied anthropology. When Barack was still a baby, his father went to continue his studies at Harvard, but due to financial difficulties he did not take his family with him. When his son was two years old, Obama Sr. single-handedly returned to Kenya, where he received the post of economist in the government apparatus. He divorced his wife. In 1982 he died in a car accident in Kenya. Father Obama Jr. did not know.

When Barack was six years old, Anne Dunham remarried – to an Indonesian student. Together with his mother, half-sister and stepfather Lolo Soetoro, the boy went to Indonesia, where he spent four years. He studied at one of the public schools in Jakarta. Then he returned to Hawaii, lived with his mother’s parents. Graduated from Punahou Privileged Private School in Honolulu in 1979. In his later memoirs, Obama recalled that he used marijuana and cocaine in high school and that his academic performance declined.

After high school, Obama attended Western College in Los Angeles, then transferred to Columbia University, graduating in 1983. The main subjects for study at the university were political science and international relations.

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In 1991, Barack Obama received his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School.

Career. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from university in 1983, Obama worked for a year at the International Business Corporation. He was a financial analyst and author of articles and reports on finance and international business for large corporations.

In 1985 he moved to Chicago. Until 1988, he worked as director of the organization of the activities of churches and public organizations. Developed projects on changes in education for the poor, training programs for the unemployed and other social projects. Then he entered Harvard Law School.

In 1990, Barack Obama becomes the first African American president of the Harvard Law Club in its 104-year history. In 1991, having received his doctorate, he returned to Chicago, where a year later he organized and headed a local election campaign for several social projects.

In 1993, he held the position of a junior employee, and three years later – a position of a consultant in a large law firm “Miner, Barnhill and Galant”. There, the basis of his interests was formed by cases on civil rights and public affairs.

In 1993, Obama also began lecturing on jurisprudence (course “Constitutional Law”) at the Faculty of Law at the University of Chicago, where he worked until 2004.

In 1996, Barack Obama was elected to the local Senate of Illinois, where he began his activities in the sphere of influence on lawmaking (in areas such as social reform, school reform, taxation).

In 1995, Barack Obama’s first book, “Dreams Inherited from His Father,” was published, which made the aspiring politician famous and popular. This was the second time an African American politician entered the fashion of the “black” theme in American society. Later, in 2006, the politician published the book “The Courage of Hope”. Both books became bestsellers. And the audio version was the first in 2006 to receive a Grammy award.

In 2004, Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention made him popular with his party members. And in the same year, he won a landslide victory in the US Senate elections, overtaking a Republican rival by more than two times.

Since January 2005 – Member of the US Senate from Illinois. He became the fifth African American Senator in the history of the United States and, at that time, the only African American in the Senate.

On November 4, 2008, he won the presidential election and became the first black master of the White House. The inauguration ceremony took place on January 20, 2009.

In November 2012, Barack Obama received the support of the majority of Americans in the US presidential elections for the second time, beating his Republican rival Mitt Romney.

On January 20, 2017, Obama’s presidency ended in connection with the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, who bypassed the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the November 2016 elections.

Views and ratings. In the Senate, Obama served on several committees: Environment and Public Works, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations. As before in the State Senate, he collaborated with Republicans on a number of issues, in particular – in the development of legislation on the transparency of government activities. In general, Obama voted in the Senate in accordance with the liberal line of the Democratic Party. He paid close attention to the idea of ​​developing alternative energy sources.

Senator Obama has managed to win the sympathy of the press unusually quickly and become one of the most visible figures in Washington. By the fall of 2006, observers already considered it quite possible to be nominated for the next presidential election. In early 2007, he was second only to Senator Hillary Clinton on the Democratic favorites list. As of early February 2007, 15% of Democrats were ready to support Obama, and 43% were ready to support Clinton. The data for the beginning of June 2008 surpassed the most optimistic forecasts of his supporters – the gap was only 3% in favor of Hillary, after which the black candidate became the clear leader. And in August, Obama officially became the single Democratic nominee.

On November 4, 2008, he overtook Republican rival John McCain by a significant margin. He was the leader practically throughout the entire finish line.

Family. Since 1992, the politician has been married to lawyer Michelle Robinson Obama. They have two daughters – Malia and Sasha.