Barack Obama who is?

Barack Hussein Obama II (born in Honolulu , USA, August 4, 1961 ), known as Barack Obama, is the forty- fourth and current President of the United States. He was a senator for the state of Illinois from January 3, 2005 until his resignation on November 16, 2008 . Furthermore, it is the fifth African American legislator in the Senate of the United States , third from the reconstruction era . It was also the first African American presidential nominee for the Democratic Party and is the first to exercise the presidential office .
He graduated from Columbia University and at the prestigious Harvard Law School , where he was president of the law review Harvard Law Review.

He then worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before being elected senator from Illinois, this role from 1997 to 2004 . He taught constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004. In 2000 he lost the race for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States , and after his previous failure , in January 2003 he announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. In March 2004, won the primary elections of the Democratic Party , and in July of the same year he delivered the opening speech at the Democratic National Convention , which boosted his candidacy. Finally he was elected to the Senate in November 2004 , with 70 % of votes.
As a representative of the Democratic minority in the 109th . Congress, along with other senators urged the law to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He made official trips to Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. In the 110. Promoted Congress related legislation lobbying and electoral fraud , global warming , nuclear terrorism, and care for military personnel to return to the U.S. from military missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007 , Obama emphasized ending the Iraq War , increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care as major priorities.

The February 10, 2007 he announced his candidacy for president of the United States and June 3, 2008 became the Democratic candidate . In the presidential election of November 4, 2008 , became president-elect after defeating Republican presidential candidate John McCain , taking possession of his duties as the 44th president on January 20, 2009 . On October 9 of that year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic efforts towards nuclear disarmament , the achievement of a peace process in the Middle East and the promotion of the fight against climate change.
As President, he promoted during his tenure policies as economic momentum Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or Act of Job Creation and Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization 2010. Other domestic policy initiatives have included the Laws of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Dodd -Frank financial reform and consumer protection , 14 or revocation policy Do not ask , do not tell on homosexuality in the military , all of 2010 and the Budget Control Act of 2011 .
In foreign policy , he ended the war in Iraq, increased the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan , signed the New START III arms control with Russia , ordered U.S. military intervention in the Libyan conflict. The May 1, 2011 announced to the media that a group of special forces of the U.S. Navy (Members of Navy SEALS DEVGRU ) had killed the terrorist Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
On April 4, 2011 announced the start of his campaign for reelection 201216 and on November 6 was re-elected to hold office for a period of four years , defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

He was born on August 4, 1961 in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. Son of Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan economist, and Ann Dunham, an American anthropologist, who met while attending the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student.
When he was two years old, his parents separated. After the divorce, her father returned to Kenya in 1971 and met for the last time with his son before he died in a car accident in 1982. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, and in 1967 moved with his family to Indonesia, the country of origin of her new husband