Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II was the 44th President of the United States. He was elected in 2008 and served two terms as the president. He is better known as Barack Obama. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961.

Obama served as the editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, and he was the first African-American to do so. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law in 1991. He joined Miner, Barnhill & Galland as a civil rights lawyer.  He was sworn as a senator representing Illinois in 2005.

In 1995, he published the autobiography Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. In 2005, the book had a second printing. In 2006, it received the Grammy award for best spoken word album.