GETTING TO KNOW LITTLE B'OUT BARACK OBAMA
Barack Hussien Obama II which is wisely known as Barack Obama was born on the 4th August 1961. He was the 44th and current President of United States. He was the first African American to be the President of United States as well as the first to born in Hawaii. Obama had graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. Before he
earned his law degree, he works as a community organizer in Chicago.
In Chicago, Obama worked as a civil rights lawyer and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. he served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for United States Senate in 2004. In march 2004, he won the democratic primary election for the United States Senator from Illinois which brought him to national attention. Obama's prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 made him a rising star nationally in the Democratic Party. He comfortably won election to the U.S Senate in November 2004. He began his run for the presidency in February 2007. In the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries, he won his party's nomination after a close campaign agaist Hillary Clinton. Then, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 general election and was inaugurated as president on 20th January 2009. Obama was awarded the nobel Peace prize on 9th October 2009. till now, he is still the President of United States.