Barack Obama
44th US president and author
Barack Obama was the 44th US president, in office from 2009 to 2017. He has also written three books, including A Promised Land.
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American Born 1961 in Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, United States
About Barack Obama
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu and graduated from Columbia University in 1983. He worked as a community organizer in Chicago, then studied at Harvard Law School, where he became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. He went on to work as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He served in the Illinois Senate and then the US Senate before winning the presidency in 2008. He was the first African American to hold the office and was re-elected in 2012. He received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Obama has written three books: Dreams from My Father (1995), The Audacity of Hope (2006) and A Promised Land (2020).