Barack Obama of Illinois
Publié le 01/03/2020
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On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the 44th president, and the first African American to be elected to that office.
Early life
Obama’s father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Kenya, as a member of the Luo ethnicity.
He won a scholarship to study economics at the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Ann Dunham, a white woman from Kansas.
Barack was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.
Did you know? Not only was Obama the first African-American president, he was also the first to be born outside the continental United States.
Obama’s parents later separated, so his went back to Kenya; he would see his son only once more before dying in a car accident in 1982.
After remarrying an Indonesian man, Lolo Soetoro, Ann moved with her young son to Jakarta in the late 1960s, where she worked at the U.S. embassy.
In 1970, Obama returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. He attended the Punahou School, an elite private school where, as he wrote in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, he first began to understand the tensions inherent in his mixed racial background.
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Pre -Election Career
1988: Obama is a summer associate in a the Chicago law firm
1992: Obama graduates from Harvard and returns to Chicago .
1996: H e is elected to the Illinois Senate , which is controlled by
Republicans.
1999: Obama begins running for Congress .
2000: Obama loses his challenge for the congressional seat
held by Rep.
Bobby Rush.
2003 -2004: Obama amasses his legislative record and serves
as chair of the Health and Human Services Committee .
2003: Obama begins running for US Senate .
David Axelrod
[begins having] camera crews video virtu ally everything Obama
does in public .
He uses this footage to create a five -minute
online video for the Jan.
16, 2007, announcement that Obama is
running for president.
2004: In March, Obama wins the primary with 52% of the vote.
In June, his Republican opponent Jack Ryan withdraws due to a
sex scandal and in November he is elected to the US Senate with
70% of the vote .
2006: Obama writes and publishes his book , "The Audacity of
Hope." In October, he announces he is considering a run for the
presidency of the United States..
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