Barack Hussein Obama II Takai T. - 03/02/18 - 5th hr

Birth Obama was born on August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the Hawaii was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. Born in Kapiolani medical center for women and children.

Early life Raised mostly in Hawaii, Obama also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. After graduating from Columbia University in New York City in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago.

Road to success In 1988 Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he became a civil rights attorney and professor, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama represented the 13th District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. Obama received national attention in 2004 with his unexpected March primary win, his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate.

...Continued Obama was nominated for president in 2008, a year after his campaign began and after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. He was elected over Republican John McCain and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, accepting the award with the caveat that he felt there were others "far more deserving of this honor than I."

Final Barack Obama was the first African American to be elected as president of the United States. He was subsequently elected to a second term over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

REFLECTION Despite the racism that to this day exists in America, and around the world, Barack Obama managed to take care of us all, he became the leader of the world’s democracy. Many in America who had never been able to relate or look up to the White House for guidance finally found a figure in which they could relate to. He gave the community hope.

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