Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (Honolulu, August 4, 1961) is a lawyer and politician of the United States, the 44th and current president of the country since January 20, 2009, and2009 Nobel Peace Prize. His candidacy was formalized by the Democratic Conventionon August 28, 2008, beginning the application process in January 16.
Until then, it was state senator in Illinois. Obama was the first mulatto (african-American in the U.S. context) to be elected president of the United States of America. It was also the only african-american senator in the previous legislature. Barack Obama is also left-handed, as well as some U.S. presidents such as Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, GeorgeH. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
He graduated in political science from Columbia University in New York, and then attendlaw at Harvard University, graduating in 1991. It was the first african American to bepresident of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama served as community leader and as a lawyer in the defense of civil rights until, in1996, was elected to the Illinois Senate (Board member of the Illinois GeneralAssembly, which is the local legislature), the term for which he was reelected in 2000 .Between 1992 and 2004, taught constitutional law at the law school at the University of Chicago.
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