Barack Obama

Biography of Barack Obama

Date of Birth: 04.08.1961

Childhood. Education. Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, the capital of the state of Hawaii. His parents met at the University of Hawaii. His father, the Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama Sr., came to the USA to study economics. His mother, the American Stanley Ann Dunham, studied anthropology. When Barack was only a few months old, his father left for Harvard alone due to a lack of money to continue his studies, but was unable to take the family with him. When the boy was two years old, Obama Sr. returned to Kenya, where he got a job as an economist in the government. He divorced from his wife and died in a car accident in 1982. Barack never met his father.

At the age of six, Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian student. With his mother, stepsister, and stepfather, he moved to Indonesia, where he lived for four years and attended a public school in Jakarta. He then returned to Hawaii, where he lived with his maternal grandparents. In 1979, he graduated from the elite Punahou School in Honolulu. In his later memoirs, Obama recalled that in the higher classes of the school, he consumed marijuana and cocaine, and his performance declined.

After high school, Obama initially attended Occidental College in Los Angeles and then transferred to Columbia University, which he graduated from in 1983. His majors at university were political science and international relations.

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

Career. After graduating with a bachelor's degree from university in 1983, Obama worked at an international business company. He was a financial analyst and writer of articles and reports on finance and international business for large companies.

In 1985, he moved to Chicago. Until 1988, he was the director of the organization of church and community institutions. There, he developed projects to improve the education system for the needy, training programs for the unemployed, and other social projects. He then attended Harvard Law School.

In 1990, Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review in its 104-year history. In 1991, he returned to Chicago, where he organized and led a local campaign with social projects a year later.

In 1993, he became an associate and three years later a consultant at the large law firm 'Miner, Barnhill and Galland'. Civil rights issues and public relations were his main interests there.

In 1993, Obama also began teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he remained until 2004.

In 1996, Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate, where he began his legislative work in areas such as social reform, school control, and tax policy.

In 1995, Barack Obama published his first book 'Dreams from My Father', which made him known and popular as an emerging politician. This was the second appearance of an African-American politician at a relevant time in American society. Later, in 2006, the politician published the book 'The Audacity of Hope'. Both books became bestsellers. The audiobook of the first book won a Grammy Award in 2006.

In 2004, Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention made him popular among like-minded people. That same year, he won the U.S. Senate elections by a large margin against his Republican opponent.

As of January 2005, he was a member of the U.S. Senate for Illinois. He was the fifth African-American senator in U.S. history and at that time the only African-American in the Senate.

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential elections by a significant margin over his Republican opponent John McCain. He led nearly the entire final phase.

In November 2012, Barack Obama again won the majority of Americans in the U.S. presidential elections, defeating his Republican opponent Mitt Romney.

On January 20, 2017, Obama's term as U.S. President ended with the inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the USA, who defeated the Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in the elections in November 2016.

Views and Ratings. In the Senate, Obama sat on several committees: Environment and Public Affairs, Veterans Affairs, and Foreign Relations. As previously in the State Senate, he worked with Republicans on a range of issues, including the development of laws for the transparency of government activities. Overall, Obama voted in line with the Democratic Party. He was also dedicated to promoting alternative energy sources.

As a senator, Obama was able to gain the trust of the press incredibly quickly and become one