President Obama Study Facts
44th President 2009-? Serving First Term
Born: Barack Hussein Obama II on August, 4 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Occupation: Community Organizer, Lawyer, Constitutional Law Professor, Author
Political Party: Democratic
Religion: Christian
1967-1971 Lived in the Meteng area of Jakarta, Indonesia
1971 Returns to Hawaii to live with his grandparents
1972 Obama's mother returns to Hawaii
1979 Moves to Los Angeles, CA. to attend Occidental College
1981 Transfers to Columbia University in New York, New York
1982 Obama's father dies in a car crash in Nairobi, Kenya
1983 Graduates from Columbia University
1984 Worked for Business International Corporation
1985-1988 Moved to Chicago and worked as a director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP)
1988 Travels in Europe and in Kenya where he meets paternal relatives for the first time.
1988 Enters Harvard Law School
1989 Became Editor of the Harvard Law Review
1989 Worked as a summer associate at the Law Firm of Sidley Austin in Chicago
1990 Worked as a summer associate at the Law Firm of Hopkins and Sutter
1990 Became President of the Harvard Law Review
1991 Graduated from Harvard Law School
1992 Directed Project Vote in Illinois
1992 Marries Michelle Robinson
1992-2004 Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Chicago
1993-1996 Also worked as an associate at the Law Firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill, & Galland
1995 Publishes his first book Dreams from My Father
1996-2004 Elected and serves as a State Senator in the Illinois Senate.
1998 Daughter Malia Ann is born
2001 Daughter Natasha is born
2004 Elected US Senator from Illinois
2004 Wrote and delivered the Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention
2005-2008 January 5, 2005 he is sworn in as a US Senator. The 5th African American US Senator in History
2006 Publishes his second book The Audacity of Hope
2008 Wins Election to be the President of the United States
2009 January 20, 2009 Barack Obama is sworn in as US President. The first African American President.
2009 President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize
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