obama is the 44th and current president of the united states.he is the first african american to hold the office.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.
barack hussein obama,born on august 4,1961,is the junior united states senator from illinois and presidential nominee of the democratic party in the 2008 united states presidential election.
obama graduated with a b.a.from columbia in 1983,then at the start of the following year worked for a year at the business international corporation and then at the new york public interest research group.
after four years in new york city,obama moved to chicago,where he was hired as director of the developing communities project (dcp) and worked there for three years from june 1985 to may 1988.
obama entered harvard law school in late 1988.at the end of his first year,he was selected,based on his grades and a writing competition,as an editor of the harvard law review.in february 1990,in his second year,he was elected president of the law review,a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of eighty editors.
