Barack Obama
Born August 4, 1961 (1961-08-04) (age 47)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.本科
Birth name Barack Hussein Obama II
Political party Democratic Party
Spouse Michelle Obama (m. 1992)
Children Malia Ann (b. 1998)
Sasha (b. 2001)
Residence Kenwood, Chicago, Illinois
Alma mater Columbia University
Harvard Law School
Profession Attorney
Politician
Religion United Church of Christ
Signature
Website Office of the President-Elect
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Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk
hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of
the United States. He was the junior United States Senator from
Illinois from 2005 until his resignation on November 16, 2008.
Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the
United States.
He is a graduate of Columbia University and
Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law
Review. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a
civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois
Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the
University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an
unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in
2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January
2003, won a primary victory in March 2004, and 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
109th Congress, he helped create legislation 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. During the 110th Congress, he
helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud,
climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S.
military personnel.
Early life and career
Main article: Early life and career of Barack Obama
Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical
Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii,[1]
to Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province,
Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas[2] of
mainly English, Irish and smaller amounts of German
descent.[3][4][5] His parents met in 1960 while attending the
University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign
student.[6][7] The couple married February 2, 1961;[8] they
separated when Obama was two years old and subsequently divorced in
1964.[7] Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once
more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.[9]
After her divorce, Dunham
married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home
country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools,
such as Asisi, in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then
returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents,
Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, while attending Punahou School from the
fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in
1979.[10] Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several
years, and then in 1977 went back to Indonesia, where she worked as
an anthropological field worker. She stayed there most of the rest
of her life, returning to Hawaii in 1994. She died of ovarian
cancer in 1995.[11]
Right-to-left: Barack Obama and half-sister Maya
Soetoro-Ng, with their mother Ann Dunham and grandfather Stanley
Dunham, in Hawaii (early 1970s)As an adult Obama admitted that he
used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol when in high school, which he
described as his greatest moral failure at the 2008 Civil Forum on
the Presidency.[12][13]
Following high school, Obama moved to Los
Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[14]
He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where
he majored in political science with a specialization in
international relations.[15] Obama graduated with a B.A. from
Columbia in 1983, then at the start of the following year worked
for a year at the Business International Corporation[16][17] and
then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.[18][19]
After four years in New York
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