Barack Hussein Obama II was born in 1961. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He is the 44th president after a heated election in 2008. He is also the only president to be born in Hawaii and the first African American president of the United States. Obama was named after his father, Barack Obama Sr, who is of Kenyan decent. He didn’t get the opportunity to know his biological father, as his parents divorced when he was only 2 years old.
From a young age Obama learned to work with those from other nations and communicate effectively. He lived in Indonesia for quite some time but moved back to Hawaii in the 70s. He has often said that living in Hawaii taught him to experience different cultures and heritages, since his father was Kenyan and his mother was of white background. Obama had a rocky adolescent life, and used drugs as a teenager. Cocaine and Marijuana were his way to quit questioning who he was. He has said that it was a mistake he wishes he would have never made, and describes it as his “Great moral failure.”
Obama’s careers have spanned from teaching Civil Rights in Law School, to being a senator, and now president. He was never in a war like many previous presidents, but instead focused on keeping peace and spreading hope to those who need it. His experience as a child living in different nations and experiencing different cultures has proven to help him become a well rounded and experienced individual. He served 3 full terms on the US Senate for Illinois from 1997 until 2004. Obama has much more to accomplish during his presidency, but he’s already on the right track with winning the Nobel Peace Prize of 2009, and continues to work hard towards repairing the US economy.
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