Barack Obama

First Name: Barack
Last Name: Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born on 4 August, 1961) is the 44th and current president of United States. He is notable for being the first African American president. Before his mandate as the US President he was junior Senator for Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.

Rise to fame

Even through Obama is originally from Hawaii, he graduated at the Columbia University and Harvard Law School. When he was at Harvard he became the president of the Harvard Law Review. Before finishing its studies he was a community organizer in the city of Chicago.

Obama was elected and reelected in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. After some time he was made more known in America at some events especially during the Democratic Party of USA election which he was against Hillary Clinton.

He defeated the Republican nominee John McCain and had been inaugurated as president of USA on 20 January 2009.