1. This is Barack Obama, ex-president of the United States of America.
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Name: Barack Obama.
Full / Real Name: Barack Hussein Obama II.
Place of birth: Honolulu (United States).
Occupation: Forty-fourth President of the United States of America.
Date of Birth: August 4, 1961.
Life: Son of Barack Obama, Kenyan economist and Ann Dunhann, American anthropologist. Her parents met at the University of Manoa (Hawaii), where her father was a foreign student.
When she was two years old her parents divorced, her father returned to Kenya and her mother remarried and they moved in 1967 to Jakarta (Burma), the city of origin of her new husband.
In Jakarta he attends school until the age of ten. In 1971, she returned to Hawaii with her maternal grandparents, finishing High School in 1979.
His father died in 1982 in a car accident and his mother in 1995 from ovarian cancer.
He enrolled in Political Science at Columbia University (New York), specializing in International Relations. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts in 1983.
After working for four years in New York, at the Business National Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group, he moved to Chicago, where he worked, in the southern part of the city, as Director of a Catholic religious community, highlighting for being a great organizer and achieving a notable improvement in the organization called DCP.
In 1988 he traveled to Europe and Kenya where he visited relatives from his father, whom he did not know.
At the end of 1988 he enrolled in Law at Harvard University, obtaining his doctorate in 1991, in Jurisprudence with the distinction Magna cum Laude.
Being the first black student to win the presidency of Harvard Law magazine, he gave him some popularity and for this reason he was offered a research scholarship at the University of Chicago in order to recruit him and, at the same time, A publisher offers to write a book on racial issues at Harvard. Obama chooses to write the book and moves with his wife Michelle to Bali and for several months remains dedicated to writing. The book titled "My Father's Dreams: A History of Race and Heritage," published in mid-1995.
For twelve years he was Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago (1992-2004). From 1993 to 2002 he worked as an associate first and then as a counselor at a prestigious law firm specializing in civil rights and urban economic development.
It also collaborated effectively with different philanthropic associations and foundations.
In 1996 senator of the democratic party by the thirteenth district of Illinois is chosen.
On January 4, 2005, he was inaugurated Senator of the United States, being the fifth black senator to obtain it.
In 2007 he announced his candidacy for President of the United States, arriving at the White House on January 8, 2009, he was named President of the United States, after a meeting of Congress that certified the votes obtained.
On April 4, 2011, he officially announced his intention to stand for the 2012 presidential campaign.
Like all previous presidents, the role of Barack Obama on the international scene has been relevant and controversial. During his tenure, he has intervened in support of Israel against the Palestinians, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and international terrorism that culminated in the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, in Pakistan, in a military operation.
In 2009 he received the Nobel Peace Prize (Sweden) and the King Abdulaziz Necklace from Saudi Arabia.
Other observations: He married the lawyer, Michelle Robinson, on October 3, 1992. His first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998 and the second, Natasha, in 2001.