Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a...

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  • Aug 4, 1961

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  • Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.,
  • Barack Hussein Obama,
  • Obama,
  • President Obama

Barack Obama Quotes

  • “ Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  • “ There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  • “ I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

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Office, position, or title Governmental body (if position is part of one) Jurisdiction of office Legislative sessions District represented (if position is district-related) From To
      • Jan 8, 1997
      • Nov 4, 2004
      • Jan 4, 2005
      • Nov 16, 2008
            • Jan 20, 2009
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              • 2006

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