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Barack Hussein Obama II (: Harvard Law Review

Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American president and previously served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney before entering politics. As president, Obama signed major legislation on health care reform, Wall Street regulation, and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, while dealing with the Great Recession and conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

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Barack Hussein Obama II (: Harvard Law Review

Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American president and previously served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney before entering politics. As president, Obama signed major legislation on health care reform, Wall Street regulation, and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, while dealing with the Great Recession and conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

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Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ ( listen);[1] born August 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who

served
as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to be
elected to the presidency. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to
2004.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago.
In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he became
a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
He represented the 13th district for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. He received
national attention in 2004 with his March primary win, his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his
landslide November election to the Senate. In 2008, he was nominated for president a year after his campaign began, after a close primary
campaign against Hillary Clinton. He was elected over Republican John McCain and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Nine months
later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Regarded as a centrist New Democrat, Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his first two years in office. The main reforms that
were passed include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as the "Affordable Care Act" or "Obamacare"),
the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. The American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 served as
economic stimulus amidst the Great Recession. After a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, he signed the Budget Control and
the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, he increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the United
States–Russia New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya, contributing to
the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. He also ordered the military operations that resulted in the deaths of Osama bin Laden and suspected
Yemeni Al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki.

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