Barack Obama - 44th President of USA

Barack Obama Profile

DOB:Aug 4,1961
Born in Honolulu,Hawaii  
Stanley Ann Dunham (Nov 29, 1942 – Nov 7, 1995) mother of Barack Obama(an American Anthropologist)

Barack Hussein Obama, Sr(June18,1936 - Nov 24,1982)father of Barack Obama(a Kenyan Senior Economist)

(The couple married on Feb 2, 1961 separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. He died in an automobile accident in 1982)


Graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School 
Worked as a Civil Rights Attorney in Chicago and Taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School  from 1992 to 2004
Served 3 Terms Representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Won Election to the U S Senate in Illinois in Nov 2004.
Began Presidential Campaign in Feb 2007
Won Democratic Party Nomination after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton 


2008 Presidential Election


In the 2008 Presidential Election,Barack Obama won the presidency with 365 Electoral Votes to 173 received by McCain. Obama won 52.9% of the Popular Vote to McCain's 45.7%. He became the first African American to be elected president. Obama delivered his victory speech  before hundreds of thousands of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park.

                                                                        

 The inauguration of Barack Obama  as the 44th President, and Joe Biden as Vice President, took place on Yuesday Jan 29,2009(which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington D C)

 Inauguration Speech by Barack Obama