Barack Obama

Barack Obama was born on augast 4,1961 at Kapi'olani Hospita in Hanolulu, Hawaii. Obama is the first president to be born in Hawaii. From ages six to ten,obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School and St.Francis of Assisi school. In 1971. Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternalgrandparents, and attended Punahou School, a private college prepatery school, from the fifth grade until his graduation from high school in 1979. following high school, obama moved to l.A in 1981 he transferred to Columbia University , Where he majored in Political science with a speciality in international relations and graduated with a B.A in 1983. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation, then at the New York Public Interest Research.

Obama served three terms in the Illinois senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in U.S House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States in 2004. In 2008 general election, he defeated Republican Nominee John MCCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20,2009.As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and renvestment Act in February 2009. On october 8, 2009 , Obama was named the 2009 nobel peace prize lawereate. in March Obama signed the