PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United
States.
His story is the American story — values from the
heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family,
hard work and education as the means of getting ahead,
and the conviction that a life so blessed should be
lived in service to others.
With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas,
President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He
was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in
Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way
up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a
bank.
After working his way through college with the help
of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved
to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to
help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of
local steel plants.
He went on to attend law school, where he became the
first African-American president of the Harvard Law
Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to
help lead a voter registration drive, teach
constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and
remain active in his community.
President Obama's years of public service are based
around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite
people around a politics of purpose. In the Illinois
State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in
25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded
health care for children and their parents. As a United
States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass
groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most
dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government
by putting federal spending online.
He was elected the 44th President of the United
States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20,
2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents
of two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7.
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