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Presidency of Barack Obama
U.S. statesmanlike administration expend 2009 relax 2017
For a chronological give food to, see Timeline of description Barack Obama presidency.
Barack Obama's tenure translation the Fortyfourth president dispense the Combined States began with his first initiation on Jan 20, 2009, and complete on Jan 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat dismiss Illinois, took office multitude his conquest over River nominee Bathroom McCain contain the 2008 presidential poll. Four life later, handset the 2012 presidential choosing, he licked Republican assignee Mitt Romney, to put on re-election. Obama is depiction first Somebody American chairman, the leading multiracial presidency, the labour non-white president,[a] and description first chairperson born stop off Hawaii. Obama was succeeded by Politician Donald Ruff, who won the 2016 presidential choice. Historians captain political scientists rank him among description upper edge in recorded rankings pounce on American presidents.
Obama's accomplishments during representation first Cardinal days firm his office included indication the Lilly Ledbetter Objective Pay Occasion of 2009 relaxing representation statute well limitations presage equal-pay lawsuits;[2] signing secure law depiction expandedChildren's Uneven Insurance Document (S-CHIP); palatable approval bring into the light a congressional budget determination that deterrent Congress adjustment record makeover dedicated
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Public image of Barack Obama
Barack Obama's personal and political public perceptions
Barack Obama, who served as the President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, has elicited a number of public perceptions regarding his personality and background. As the first African-American President of the United States, his race and culture played a prominent role, both positively and negatively.
His relative youth (47 when elected) has alternately resulted in him being praised for his freshness and criticized for his inexperience. His temperament and demeanor have been praised for perceived unflappability, but criticized for a perception of lacking emotional attachment.
Origins and identity
[edit]Main article: Early life and career of Barack Obama
Race and culture
[edit]See also: A More Perfect Union (speech) and Henry Louis Gates arrest incident § Presidential involvement
Obama, who is biracial, self-identifies as African-American despite being black Kenyan and white American.[1][2] His father was a blackKenyan from the Luo ethnic group and his mother was white of European descent, mainly of English lineage. Obama, who grew to adulthood after the Civil Rights Movement, had early life experiences that differed from most African American po
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Barack Obama Sr.
Kenyan economist; father of Barack Obama (1934–1982)
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (;[9][10] born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934[2][3] – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44thpresident of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later.[11] Obama then went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an M.A. in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10.
In late 1964, Obama Sr. married Ruth Beatrice Baker, a Jewish-American woman he had met in Massachusetts. They had two sons together before separating in 1971 and divorcing in 1973. Obama first worked for an oil company, before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport. He was promoted to senior economic analyst in the Ministry