-Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii from Obama Sr and Ann Dunham. Married to Michelle Obama, he has two daughters: Natasha and Malia Ann. Obama was born in Hawaii, but he and his re-married mother moved to Jakarta, Indonesia and Maya Soetoro (his half-sister) was born. He lived there until the age of 10. Due to incidents while living in Indonesia, his mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents and later joined him with his sister.
Obama attended Punahou Academy, Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.
Obama moved to Chicago and was a director of a church-based community organization from 1985 to 1988. He also worked as a consultant and instructor for a community organizing institute, Gamaliel Foundation. After entering Harvard Law School, after his first year, he became editor for the Harvard Law Review, and after his second year, he became president of the Review. In 1992, Obama was a teacher at the University of Chicago Law School for civil rights.
He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, reelected again in 1998, and reelected again in 2002. Obama became the chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee in January 2003. In 2002, Obama entered the US Senate Race and made it official in 2003. In January 3 2005, winning 70% of the votes, Obama entered as a senator.
February 2007, Obama announced that he would be running for the 2008 presidential campaign. After the field of Democratic candidates narrowed down to just him and Hillary Clinton, the race was neck-to-neck, but Clinton ended her campaign and supported Obama. John McCain was elected as the Republican candidate, but on November 4 2008, Obama won the majority of the votes. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, making him the first African American to serve as president of the United States.
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