Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, HI on August 04 , 1961. He is the 44th president of the United States of America and the first African-American to hold office. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He also was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree as well as practicing civil law, and from 1992 to 2004 taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Obama previously served three terms as a United States Senator of Illinois from January 1997 until November 2008 when he was elected to the Presidency. His presidential campaign began in 2007 after defeating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries. He then went on to win the 2008 Presidential Election against Republican nominee John McCain and inaugurated on January 20, 2009. In October 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and as President, Obama signed various important legislations such as the American Recovery and Reinstatement Act of 2009, the Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2010, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. As for foreign policy President Obama has gradually withdrew troops from Iraq and increased them in Afghanistan. He ordered the enforcement of a No Fly Zone over Libya that was sanctioned by the United Nations earlier this year, and on May 1st 2011 President Obama announced that he had authorized Navy Seal Team 6 to kill the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.
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