BIOGRAPHY BARRACK OBAMA

BIOGRAPHY BARRACK OBAMA

Profile and biography of Barack Obama. When the United States presidential election in 2009, making an uproar when he was elected the first President of the United States of America-African descent. He was Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961. He was the President of the United States 44. He was the first African American to hold an important position as President of the United States. Obama was the Senator from Illinois American who served from January 3, 2005 to November 16, 2008, after it advanced to United States presidential election. He's taken the oath as President on January 20, 2009 in a ceremony at the US Capitol.

Biography and profile of Barack Obama

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first person of African-American descent who became President of Harvard Law (Faculty of law, Harvard University). He worked as a community organizer, and also worked as a civil rights lawyer in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. After failing to make a bid for a seat in the U.S. HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109. Congress, Obama helped make laws to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In Congress he helped make laws about the election, negotiations and fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and treatment for u.s. military personnel returning from combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Life Of Barack Obama

Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, from Mother named Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas. Obama's father was Barack Obama, SR., of Kogelo, Nyanza province, Kenya. His parents met in the 1960s while attending an event at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. The couple married on February 2, 1961, they separated when Obama was two years old and divorced in 1964. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in a car accident in 1982.

After the divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, Indonesia students they met while attending a College in Hawaii. When Suharto, a military leader came to power in 1967 in the country of Indonesia. Then Obama along with his family moved to Indonesia. Little Obama then attended Local schools in Jakarta, such as Public schools and Besuki St. Francis of Assisi School, until he was ten years old.

He then returned to Honolulu to live with maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham. Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for five years, then in 1977 returned to Indonesia, where he worked as a worker in the field of anthropology. He lived there spent the rest of his life, then returned to Hawaii in 1994. He died of ovarian kankerb in 1995.

After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he became Chairman in political science with a specialization in international relations. Obama graduated with a b.a. from Columbia in 1983. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as Director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization consisting of the eight originally Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side. He worked there for three years from June 1985 to May 1988. DCP's for three years as director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000 include helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and tenants rights organization in Altgeld Garden. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community agency that organized. In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five months in Kenya, where he met many people with his brother's father for the first time.

Obama entered Harvard Law School at the end of 1988. He was elected editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of the first year and as President of the journal in his second year. During the summer, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a lawyer of the law firm of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins and Sutter in 1990. After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.

From April to October 1992, Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote, from voter registration drive with a staff of ten and seven hundred volunteers; It is achieved by registration purposes 150,000 of 400,000 registered no African American in the country.

After twelve years, Obama served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School teaching constitutional law. He was first classified as a lecturer, 1992-1996, and then as a Senior lecturer from 1996 to 2004. He also joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland.

Obama is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Public allies in 1992, before his wife, Michelle, became the Executive Director established a Stall in early 1993 Chicago allies. He served from 1994 to 2002 on the Board of Directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 became the first Foundation to fund community development Projects, and also from 1994 to 2002 on the Board of Directors of the Joyce Foundation. Obama worked at the Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002, and was President and Chairman of the Board of directors from 1995 to 1999. He also worked in the Board of Directors of the Chicago Lawyers ' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Centre of environmental technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, following State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from Illinois's 13th District, which then spanned Chicago South Side NEIGHBORHOODS from Hyde Park-Kenwood South to South Shore and West to Chicago Lawn. Once elected, Obama is supported by two political parties get support for reform legislation and ethics of health care law. He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare improvements, and promoted increased subsidies for children. In 2001, as co-Chair of the two political parties supported by the Joint Committee on Administrative rules,

In July 2004, Obama wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. After explaining to mother's grandfather's experience as a World War II veteran and benefit from the New Deal of the FHA and G.I. Bill programs, Obama spoke about the U.S. Government change economic and social priorities. He questioned the Bush Administration's management of the Iraq War and of America highlighted from the obligation for the soldiers.

Obama's expected to be the opponent in the general election, Republican candidate with Jack Ryan, withdrew from the race in June 2004. Two months later, and less than three months before election day, Alan Keyes accepted the Illinois Republican Party from the nomination to replace Ryan. At the general election of November 2004, Obama received 70% of the vote to Keyes's 27%, one of the biggest victories for state races in the history of Illinois.

Obama has taken the oath as senator on January 4, 2005. Obama is the fifth Senatot descendants of African-Americans in the history of the United States, and the third to have been popularly elected (see seventeenth United States Constitution Changes). Congress in 2008 he was ranked as the eleventh most powerful Senator.

Legislation

Obama also sponsored legislation that would have required nuclear plant owners to notify State and local authorities of radioactive leaks, but the Bill failed to qualify in the full Senate after much modified in Committee.

Obama's Journey To Become President Of The United

On February 10, 2007, Obama announced the nomination of the President of the United States for self in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. During the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly end the war Iraq, increasing energy freedom, and providing universal health care.

 

After some early contests, the field narrowed to a contest between Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, with each winning several State and race remaining close throughout the primary process. On May 31, the Democratic National Committee who agreed to chair the whole dispute over Michigan and Florida at the National Convention guests, each with a half vote, narrowing Obama's delegate lead. On June 3, with all States counted, Obama passed the threshold into alleged that candidate. On that day, he gave a speech of triumph in St. Paul, Minnesota. Clinton suspended her campaign and endorsed him on June 7. Also, he campaigned for the general election race against Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee.

At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, a former Obama rival Hillary Clinton in his speech of support for Obama from the nomination and then call Obama nominated by acclamation as the Democratic candidate for President. On August 28, Obama delivered a speech to 84,000 supporters in Denver. During the speech, which has been seen by more than 38 million people around the world, he accepted the nomination of the party and the policy objectives are presented.

After McCain was nominated as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, there were three presidential debates between Obama and McCain in September and October 2008. In November, President Obama won with 53% of the popular vote and the electoral college margin range. The election he ignited a variety of celebrations in various cities in the United States and abroad. Then-President-elect Obama then met with President George w. Bush in the Oval Office, November 10, 2008.

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the general election with 365 electoral votes to McCain and become the first American President of African descent. In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Obama stated that "change has come to America."

On January 8, 2009, the joint session of the US Congress meet to explain the votes of the Electoral College for the presidential election of 2008. Based on the results of the vote of the election, Barack Obama who has been declared as the winner of the presidential election in the United States and Joseph Biden selected has been declared Vice President of the United States. Then in 2014, he once again became President until the year 2019.