President Obama
President Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961. He is currently the forty-forth president of the United States. He has a Vice President named Joe Biden and he preceded by President George W. Bush. He is the first African-American to take office of being a president. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois.
Obama has a wife, Michelle Obama, and two children, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. Obama and his family live in a private house in Chicago, Illinois. Obama was originally born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but moved to Chicago when he was offered a job as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland. In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator, Alice Palmer, as Senator from Illinois's 13th District. In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority. Obama has been to a lot of states in the past. His father was originally from Kenya. His mother, Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist born in the United States. The couple separated when Barack was two years old and eventually divorced. Barack Obama's father moved back to Kenya following the divorce.
In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U.S. Senate race. He also created a campaign committee, began raising funds and lined up political media consultant David Axelrod by August 2002, and formally announced his candidacy in January 2003. Obama sponsored legislation that would have required nuclear plant owners to notify state and local authorities of radioactive leaks, but the bill failed to pass in the full Senate after being heavily modified in committee.
In June 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. They began dating later that summer, and became engaged in 1991. They were married on October 3, 1992. The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born on July 4, 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha ("Sasha"), on June 10, 2001. The Obama daughters attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. When they moved to Washington, D.C., in January 2009, the girls started at the private Sidwell Friends School.
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