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64rem){{font-size:2rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="1" data-anchor-id="who-is-barack-obama-0" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">Who Is Barack Obama?</h2><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Barack Obama was the 44^th print of the Uned Stat and the first Black manr--chief. He served two terms, om 2009 until 2017. The son of parents om Kenya and Kansas, Obama was born and raised Hawaii. He graduated om Columbia Universy and Harvard Law School, where he was print of the <em>Harvard Law Review</em>. After servg on the Illois State Senate, he was elected a U.S. senator reprentg Illois 2004. In 2009, Obama was <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="award the Nobel Peace Prize" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">award the Nobel Peace Prize</a>. He and his wife, <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Michelle Obama" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Michelle Obama</a>, have two dghters, <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Malia" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Malia</a> and <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Sasha" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Sasha</a>. </p><h2 data-no-id="3" data-anchor-id="quick-facts-1" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">Quick Facts</h2><style data-emotn="css avrwc0">{borr:th solid #E8E8E8;borr-lor:#A00000;clear:both;lor:#323232;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:600;marg-bottom:1.875rem;marg-top:1.875rem;paddg:1.25rem;text-align:left;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.25rem;le-height:1.4;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><p data-no-id="4" class="body-tip css-avrwc0 et3p2gv0">FULL NAME: Barack Hse Obama II<br />BORN: Augt 4, 1961<br />BIRTHPLACE: Honolulu, Hawaii<br />SPOUSE: <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Michelle Obama" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Michelle Obama</a> (1992-prent)<br />CHILDREN: <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Malia" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Malia</a> and <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Sasha" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Sasha</a><br />ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo</p><h2 data-no-id="5" data-anchor-id="early-life-and-fay-2" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">Early Life and Fay</h2><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Barack Hse Obama II was born on Augt 4, 1961, Honolulu to Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. He has six half-siblgs, cludg half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng who he grew up wh.</p><style data-emotn="css lnwso7">{lor:#323232;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:800;letter-spacg:0.02em;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.5rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.5rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.5rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="8" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">Obama’s Parents</h2><p data-no-id="9" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was born of Luo ethnicy Nyanza Provce, Kenya. Obama Sr. grew up herdg goats Ai and eventually earned a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of gog to llege Hawaii.</p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was born on an Army base Wicha, Kansas, durg World War II. After the Japane attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham’s father, Stanley, enlisted the ary and marched across Europe <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="General Gee Patton" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">General Gee Patton</a>’s army. Dunham’s mother, Malyn, went to work on a bomber assembly le. After the war, the uple studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a hoe through the Feral Hog Program, and after several mov, end up Hawaii.</p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">While studyg at the Universy of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama Sr. met fellow stunt Ann Dunham. They married on Febary 2, 1961, and Barack II was born six months later. As a child, Obama did not have a relatnship wh his father. When his son was still an fant, Obama Sr. reloted to Massachetts to attend Harvard Universy and pursue a doctorate gree. Obama’s parents officially separated several months later and ultimately divorced March 1964, when their son was 2. Soon after, Obama Sr. returned to Kenya.</p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a Universy of Hawaii stunt om Indonia. A year later, the fay moved to Jakarta, Indonia, where Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng was born 1970. Several cints Indonia left Dunham aaid for her son’s safety and tn, so at the age of 10, Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live wh his maternal grandparents. His mother and half-sister later joed them.</p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama stggled wh the absence of his father, whom he saw only once more after his parents divorced when Obama Sr. vised Hawaii for a short time 1971. “[My father] had left paradise, and nothg that my mother or grandparents told me uld obviate that sgle, unassailable fact,” he later reflected. “They uldn’t scribe what might have been like had he stayed.”</p><h2 data-no-id="14" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">Life Hawaii<br /></h2><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">While livg wh his grandparents, Obama enrolled the teemed Punahou School. He excelled basketball and graduated wh amic honors 1979. As one of only three Black stunts at the school, he beme nsc of racism and what meant to be Ain Amerin. </p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama later scribed how he stggled to rencile social perceptns of his multiracial herage wh his own sense of self: “I noticed that there was nobody like me the Sears, Roebuck Christmas talog... and that Santa was a whe man,” he wrote. “I went to the bathroom and stood ont of the mirror wh all my sens and limbs seemgly tact, lookg as I had always looked, and wonred if somethg was wrong wh me.”</p><h2 data-no-id="17" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">Obama’s Half-Siblgs </h2><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama’s fay clus six half-siblgs loted around the world. He shar a mother wh half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and has five paternal half-siblgs.</p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Acrdg to Oprah Daily" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Acrdg to <em>Oprah Daily</em></a>, he has mataed a warm and close relatnship wh half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng. The two grew up together and both graduated om the Punahou School. “He took his job as big brother serly,” she said of Obama. “Our mother divorced my father, and our grandfather died. So he really end up beg the man of the hoe.” Soetoro-Ng mpaigned for Obama both the 2008 and 2012 electns, and the two have shared fay vatns Indonia and Christmas Hawaii.</p><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama’s olst paternal half-siblg, Malik Obama, was born Nairobi, Kenya, 1958, and the two didn’t meet until 1985. Malik <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="told" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">told</a> the <em>Associated Prs</em> 2004 he served as the bt man at Barack’s weddg and vice versa. However, Malik notably cricized Obama’s princy 2016 and announced his support for Republin ndidate <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Donald Tmp" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Donald Tmp</a> that year’s electn. He attend the third printial bate as Tmp’s gut.</p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Barack’s other half-siblgs clu: </p><style data-emotn="css 1rk79nl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;marg:0.9375rem 0 0 0.625rem;paddg:0 0 0 1.25rem;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:0.9375rem 0;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} li{paddg-bottom:0.625rem;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} li::marker{lor:#323232;}</style><ul data-no-id="22" class="css-1rk79nl et3p2gv0"><li>Half-sister Auma Obama, born 1960 Nairobi. She and Barack <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="met" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">met</a> for the first time when they were their 20s Chigo.</li><li>Half-brother Mark Okoth Obama Nsandjo, born Nairobi 1965. He and Barack have met several tim followg their 1988 troductn Kenya.</li><li>Half-brother David Nsandjo, born 1967. Although ’s not clear when, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="he died" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">he died</a> a motorcycle accint, acrdg to <em>Poli</em>.</li><li>Half-brother Gee Hse Onyango Obama, born 1982 Kenya. Barack has only spoken to his youngt half-brother a few tim. </li></ul><h2 data-no-id="23" data-anchor-id="tn-3" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">Edutn</h2><style data-emotn="css 1fvf3td">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="24" class="align-left size-medium embed css-1fvf3td e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="barack obama wavg to someone while stg a chair" tle="Barack Obama At Occintal College" loadg="lazy" width="755" height="1024" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css 78jldq">{paddg-left:0rem;}</style><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css v1vjip">{width:0;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;lor:#323232;font-weight:bold;marg-bottom:0.3125rem;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:1.4;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} em{font-fay:CharterItalic,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;}</style><div class="css-v1vjip e1xqj1sx1">Barack Obama attends a dner honor of Black History Month at Occintal College Febary 1981.</div><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-p0sr5z e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="25" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama entered Occintal College Los Angel 1979. After two years, he transferred to Columbia Universy New York Cy, graduatg 1983 wh a gree polil science.</p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">After his unrgrad studi, Obama worked the bs sector for two years. He moved to Chigo 1985, where he worked on the impoverished South Si as a muny anizer for low-e rints the Roseland and the Altgeld Garns muni.</p><p data-no-id="27" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It was durg this time that Obama, who said he “was not raised a relig hoehold,” joed the Try Uned Church of Christ. He also vised relativ Kenya and paid an emotnal vis to the grav of his blogil father, who died a r accint November 1982, and his paternal grandfather. </p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“For a long time, I sat between the two grav and wept,” Obama wrote. “I saw that my life Ameri—the Black life, the whe life, the sense of abandonment I’d felt as a boy, the tratn and hope I’d wnsed Chigo—all of was nnected wh this small plot of earth an ocean away.”</p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Returng om Kenya wh a sense of renewal, Obama entered Harvard Law School 1988. The next year, he met wh nstutnal law profsor Lrence Tribe. Their discsn so imprsed Tribe that when Obama asked to jo his team as a rearch assistant, the profsor agreed. In Febary 1990, Obama was elected the first Black print of the <em>Harvard Law Review</em>. He graduated magna cum l wh his juris doctor om Harvard Law School 1991.</p><h2 data-no-id="30" data-anchor-id="marriage-to-michelle-obama-and-dghters-4" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">Marriage to Michelle Obama and Dghters</h2><p id="Marriage-to-Michelle-Obama-and-Dghters" data-no-id="31" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 1989, while still law school, Obama joed the Chigo law firm of Sidley At as a summer associate. There, he met Michelle Robson, a young lawyer who was assigned to be his adviser. Inially, Michelle refed to date Barack, believg that their work relatnship would make the romance improper. However, she relented not long after, and the uple fell love. </p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="32" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="malia obama, michelle obama, and sasha obama se as they look var directns, malia is wearg a black and blue drs wh a bow the ont, michelle is wearg a teal drs wh three quarter length sleev and a flower broach, sasha is wearg a purple top" tle="Malia Obama, Michelle Obama, and Sasha Obama 2008" loadg="lazy" width="4256" height="2832" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-v1vjip e1xqj1sx1">Malia, Michelle, and Sasha Obama at the 2008 Democratic Natnal Conventn</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-p0sr5z e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p id="Marriage-to-Michelle-Obama-and-Dghters" data-no-id="33" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On October 3, 1992, he and <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Michelle" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Michelle</a> were married. They moved to Kenwood, on Chigo’s South Si. Barack and Michelle weled two dghters several years later: <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Malia" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Malia</a>, born 1998, and <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Sasha" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Sasha</a>, born 2001. The uple has stated that their personal prry is their children. The Obamas tried to make their dghters’ world as “normal” as possible while livg the Whe Hoe, wh set tim for studyg, gog to bed and gettg up.</p><h2 data-no-id="34" data-anchor-id="illois-polil-reer-5" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">Illois Polil Career</h2><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">After law school, Obama returned to Chigo to practice as a civil rights lawyer wh the firm of Mer, Barnhill & Galland. He also tght nstutnal law part-time at the Universy of Chigo Law School between 1992 and 2004—first as a lecturer and then as a profsor—and helped anize voter registratn driv durg <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Bill Clton" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Bill Clton</a>’s 1992 printial mpaign. </p><p data-no-id="36" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama’s advocy work led him to n for and w a seat the Illois State Senate as a Democrat 1996. Durg his years as a state senator, Obama worked wh both Democrats and Republins to draft legislatn on ethics, as well as expand health re servic and early childhood tn programs for the poor. He also created a state earned-e tax cred for the workg poor. As chairman of the Illois Senate’s Health and Human Servic Commtee, Obama worked wh law enforcement officials to require the viotapg of terrogatns and nfsns all pal s after a number of ath-row mat were found to be nocent.</p><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2000, Obama ma an unsuccsful Democratic primary n for the U.S. Hoe of Reprentativ seat held by four-term cumbent ndidate Bobby Rh. Unterred, he created a mpaign mtee 2002 and began raisg funds to n for a seat the U.S. Senate 2004. Wh the help of polil nsultant David Axelrod, Obama began asssg his prospects for a Senate w.<br /></p><h2 id="Quick-Facts" data-no-id="38" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">Illois Senator</h2><p data-no-id="39" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Enuraged by poll numbers, Obama cid to n for the open U.S. Senate seat, vated by Republin Peter Fzgerald. In the 2004 Democratic primary, he feated multilnaire bsman Blair Hull and Illois Comptroller Daniel Hyn wh 52 percent of the vote. </p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">That summer, he was ved to liver the keynote speech support of John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic Natnal Conventn Boston. Obama emphasized the importance of uny and ma veiled jabs at the <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Gee W. Bh" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Gee W. Bh</a> admistratn and the diversnary e of wedge issu.</p><p data-no-id="41" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">After the nventn, Obama returned to his U.S. Senate bid Illois. His opponent the general electn was supposed to be Republin primary wner Jack Ryan, a wealthy former vtment banker. However, Ryan whdrew om the race June 2004 followg public disclosure of unsubstantiated sexual viancy allegatns by his ex-wife, actor Jeri Ryan. That Augt, diplomat and former printial ndidate Alan Key accepted the Republin nomatn to replace Ryan. </p><p data-no-id="42" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In the November 2004 general electn, Obama received 70 percent of the vote to Key’ 27 percent, the largt electoral victory Illois history. Wh his w, Obama beme only the third Ain Amerin elected to the U.S. Senate sce Renstctn.</p><p data-no-id="43" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Sworn to office on January 3, 2005, Obama partnered wh Republin Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana on a bill that expand efforts to stroy weapons of mass stctn Eastern Europe and Rsia. Then, wh Republin Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, he created a webse to track all feral spendg. Obama also spoke out for victims of Hurrine Katra, phed for alternative energy velopment, and champned improved veterans’ benefs. </p><h2 data-no-id="44" data-anchor-id="2008-printial-electn-and-guratn-6" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">2008 Printial Electn and Inguratn </h2><p data-no-id="45" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In Febary 2007, Obama ma headl when he announced his ndidacy for the 2008 Democratic printial nomatn. He was locked a tight battle wh then-U.S. senator om New York <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Hillary Rodham Clton" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Hillary Rodham Clton</a>. On June 3, 2008, Obama beme the Democratic Party’s prumptive nomee after wng a sufficient number of pledged legat durg the primari. </p><p data-no-id="46" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He mpaigned on an amb agenda of fancial reform, alternative energy, and reventg tn and health re—all while brgg down the natnal bt. Bee the issu were tertwed wh the enomic well-beg of the natn, he believed all would have to be unrtaken simultaneoly.</p><p data-no-id="47" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On November 4, 2008, Obama feated Republin printial nomee <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="John McCa" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">John McCa</a>, 52.9 percent to 45.7 percent, the popular vote and won electn as the 44^th print of the Uned Stat. A historic victory, Obama would soon be the first Black print the natn’s history.</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="48" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="barack obama holds up his right hand and s at john roberts while his left hand rts on a bible held by michelle obama, the crowd around them are malia obama, sasha obama, diane feste and others" tle="Barack Obama sworn as 44th print of the Uned Stat" loadg="lazy" width="3000" height="2001" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-v1vjip e1xqj1sx1">Barack Obama is sworn as 44^th print of the Uned Stat by Chief Jtice John Roberts on January 20, 2009.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-p0sr5z e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="49" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama’s guratn took place on January 20, 2009. When he took office at age 47, Obama hered a global enomic recsn, two ongog foreign wars Iraq and Afghanistan, and the lowt-ever ternatnal favorabily ratg for the Uned Stat. Durg his guratn speech, Obama summarized the suatn by sayg, “Today I say to you that the challeng we face are real. They are ser, and they are many. They will not be met easily or a short span of time. But know this, Ameri: They will be met.”</p><h2 data-no-id="50" data-anchor-id="first-term-as--print-7" class="body-h2 css-oyl0 ech3uec0">First Term as U.S. Print</h2><h2 id="Quick-Facts" data-no-id="51" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">First 100 Days and Nobel Peace Prize</h2><p data-no-id="52" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama axed Congrs to expand health re surance for children and provi legal protectn for women seekg equal pay. A $787 billn stimul bill was passed to promote short-term enomic growth the face of the Great Recsn. Hog and cred markets were put on life support, wh a market-based plan to buy U.S. banks’ toxic assets. The ernment ma loans to the to dtry, and new regulatns were proposed for Wall Street. </p><p data-no-id="53" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama cut tax for workg fai, small bs, and first-time home buyers. The print also loosened the ban on embryonic stem cell rearch and moved ahead wh a $3.5 trilln budget plan.</p><p data-no-id="54" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama unrtook a plete overhl of Ameri’s foreign policy. He reached out to improve relatns wh Europe, Cha, and Rsia and to open dialogue wh Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. He lobbied alli to support a global enomic stimul package. He mted an addnal 21,000 troops to Afghanistan and set an Augt 2010 date for whdrawal of nearly all U.S. troops om Iraq. (Obama was an early opponent of Print Gee W. Bh’s ph to va Iraq as part of the “war on terror” iative, sayg at an October 2002 rally: “I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.”)</p><p data-no-id="55" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In more dramatic cints, Obama orred an attack on pirat off the ast of Somalia and prepared the natn for a swe flu outbreak. He signed an executive orr banng excsive terrogatn techniqu and orred the closg of the ary tentn facily at Guantanamo Bay Cuba wh a year—a adle that ultimately would not be met.</p><p data-no-id="56" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In regnn of his admistratn’s early work, the Nobel Commtee Norway award Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="57" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1w1h7dq">{borr:none;marg-bottom:1.875rem;marg-top:1.875rem;}@media(max-width: 40.625rem){{paddg:1.25rem 0;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg:1.25rem;}}</style><asi class="css-1w1h7dq e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css 29xcwg">{display:le-block;font-weight:bold;marg:0rem;background-lor:none;lor:#A00000;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.5;letter-spacg:0.03em;paddg:0.25rem 0.625rem;paddg-left:0;paddg-right:0;text-transform:upperse;}</style><h6 class="css-29xcwg e6pr2lz3"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css 1ywp4u1">{paddg-top:1.25rem;borr-bottom:th solid #A00000;lor:brandColorDenary;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:bold;paddg-bottom:1.25rem;} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#A00000;}</style><li class="css-1ywp4u1 e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/polil-figur/a43031160/prints-who-won-the-nobel-peace-prize" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="4 U.S. Prints Who Won the Nobel Peace Prize" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="jimmy rter s and wav to the mera, he is wearg a blue and whe striped llared shirt wh a navy and dark red diagonal striped tie, a light gray v neck sweater is on top of the shirt and tie, and he also wears a dark gray su jacket" tle="Jimmy Carter" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">4 U.S. Prints Who Won the Nobel Peace Prize</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><h2 data-no-id="58" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">Affordable Care Act</h2><p data-no-id="59" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Obama signed his signature health re reform plan, the Affordable Care Act, to law March 2010. The new law prohibed the nial of verage based on preexistg ndns, allowed cizens unr 26 years old to be sured unr parental plans, provid for ee health screengs for certa cizens, and expand surance verage and accs to medil re to lns of Amerins.<br /></p><p data-no-id="60" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Casually known as “Obamare,” the hallmark legislatn faced strong opposn om Congrsnal Republins and the populist Tea Party movement even after s passage. In October 2013, a dispute over the feral budget and Republin sir to fund or rail the Affordable Care Act ed a 16-day shutdown of the feral ernment.</p><p data-no-id="61" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The rollout of the reforms were ially bumpy. October 2013 saw the failed lnch of , the webse meant to allow people to fd and purchase health surance. Extra technil support was brought to work on the troubled webse, which was plagued wh glch for weeks. The health re law was also blamed for some Amerins losg their existg surance polici, spe repeated assuranc om Obama that such ncellatns would not occur.</p><p data-no-id="62" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The legislatn has faced numero challeng urt and wound up at the U.S. Supreme Court three tim. In June 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s dividual mandate, which required cizens to purchase health surance or pay a tax. In a 5-4 cisn, the urt said that the health re law’s signature provisn fell wh the taxatn power granted to Congrs unr the Constutn. </p><p data-no-id="63" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In the summer of 2015, the Supreme Court upheld part of the Act regardg health re tax subsidi. Whout the tax creds, buyg medil surance might have bee too stly for lns of people.</p><p data-no-id="64" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The latt Supreme Court cisn about the Affordable Care Act began 2017 when Congrsnal Republins dropped the dividual mandate tax penalty to zero. Texas and 17 other Republin stat quickly sued to strike down the Affordable Care Act, maly based on their opposn to s dividual mandate. A Texas feral judge led favor of the su, sayg that bee there was no longer a tax, the law was unnstutnal. </p><p data-no-id="65" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The se was sent to an appeals urt. A fal lg me June 2021 when the U.S. Supreme Court <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="voted" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">voted</a>, 7-2, to uphold the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that the objectg stat were not required to pay anythg unr the mandate provisn and th had no standg to brg the challenge to urt. As of January 2023, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="nearly 15.9 ln Amerins" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">nearly 15.9 ln Amerins</a> were sured through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace.</p><h2 id="Quick-Facts" data-no-id="66" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">Killg Osama b Lan</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="67" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="print obama stg at a sk wh his admistratn watchg vio footage" tle="Print Obama monors missn to fd Osama b Lan" loadg="lazy" width="4096" height="2731" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-v1vjip e1xqj1sx1">Print Barack Obama and members of his admistratn monor the missn to lote Osama b Lan the Suatn Room of the Whe Hoe 2011.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-p0sr5z e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="68" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On April 29, 2011, Obama approved a vert operatn Pakistan to track down famo al-Qaeda lear <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Osama b Lan" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Osama b Lan</a>, the mastermd behd the 9/11 attacks who had been hidg for nearly 10 years. On May 2, an ele team of U.S. Navy SEALs raid a pound Abbottabad, Pakistan, and, wh 40 mut, killed b Lan a firefight. There were no Amerin sualti, and the team was able to llect valuable telligence about the workgs of al-Qaeda.</p><p data-no-id="69" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The same day, <a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Obama announced" class="body-lk css-47aoac et3p2gv0">Obama announced</a> b Lan’s ath on natnal televisn. “The ath of b Lan marks the most signifint achievement to date our natn’s effort to feat al-Qaeda,” Obama said. “As we do, we mt also reaffirm that the Uned Stat is not—and never will be—at war wh Islam.”</p><h2 data-no-id="70" class="body-h3 css-lnwso7 et3p2gv0">Repealg Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell</h2><p data-no-id="71" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2011, Obama signed a repeal of the ary policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which prevented openly gay troops om servg the U.S. Armed Forc. 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