Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) is an American politician and the 44th U.S. president.
Obama was educated in political science and international affairs from Columbia University.
After university, he worked to improve conditions in a poor neighborhood in the southern part of Chicago.
After three years in Chicago Obama he was admitted to law school at Harvard University, where he was editor of the renowned Harvard Law Review.
After law school Obama returned in 1992 back to Chicago and helped elect President Bill Clinton and Senator Carol Moseley Braun. She was the first black woman elected to the Senate.
Subsequently, Obama lawyer specializing in civil rights legislation and staff at the University of Chicago. Obama was in 1992 married to Michelle Obama, and together they have two daughters.
Barack Obama was known in a wider public, since he at the Democratic Convention in 2004 gave the keynote speech [6], which motivated John Kerry's nomination as the party's presidential candidate.
3. June 2008 he declared himself the Democratic presidential candidate in the election in November the same year. He was thus the first non-white (non-Caucasians), while the first mulatto, who was the presidential candidate of a major American parties. In 1996 Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate from the same area in Chicago, as he had once worked to improve conditions in.
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