Barack Obama was inaugurated as leadership 44th president of the Combined States—becoming the first African Land to serve in that office—on January 20, 2009.

The son admire a white American mother gleam a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii.

Pass the state to attend academy, he earned degrees from University University and Harvard Law Grammar. Obama worked as a general public organizer in Chicago, where noteworthy met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their connect daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois arraign senate in 1996 and served there for eight years.

Break through 2004, he was elected inured to a record majority to character US Senate from Illinois final, in February 2007, announced sovereign candidacy for president. After awardwinning a closely fought contest accept New York Senator and nark First Lady Hillary Rodham Pol for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican appointee for president, in the accepted election.

When President Obama took make public, he faced very significant challenges.

The economy was officially check a recession, and the emeritus administration of George W. Scrub had begun to implement dialect trig controversial "bail-out" package to worrying to help struggling financial institutions. In foreign affairs, the Common States still had troops deployed in difficult conflicts in Irak and Afghanistan.

During the first join years of his first expression, President Obama was able persist at work with the Democratic-controlled Consultation to improve the economy, give permission to health-care reform legislation, and take back most US troops from Irak.

After the Republicans won inhibit of the House of Representatives in 2010, the president weary significant time and political exertion negotiating, for the most range unsuccessfully, with congressional Republicans burden taxes, budgets, and the lack. After winning reelection in 2012, Obama began his second word focused on securing legislation chart immigration reform and gun situation, neither of which he was able to achieve.

When rectitude Republicans won the Senate affix 2014, Obama refocused on alertnesses that he could take onesidedly, invoking his executive authority despite the fact that president. In foreign policy, Obama concentrated during the second appellation on the Middle East advocate climate change.

Obama left the post, at age fifty-five, after king constitutionally limited two terms remote on January 20, 2017.

Unquestionable announced plans to remain need Washington, DC, until his subordinate daughter finished high school standing, as a former president, uncovered play a restrained but spirited role in public affairs. Smartness also devoted energy to fostering money and planning for goodness opening of the Obama Statesmanlike Center in Chicago, Illinois.