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Barack Hussein Obama II was the 44th President of the United States.He was also the first African American to serve as President.Obama Served two terms as the President from 2009 to 2017. He was born on August 4,1961 at Kapiolani medical center for women and children in Honolulu,HI. He attended Harvard Law School in 1988, That same year Obama joined the Chicago Law firm of Sidley Austin as a summer associate an there he met michelle Obama. February 1990, Obama was elected the first African american editor of the Harvard law review, He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard law in 1991. After Law School, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer with the firm of miner,Barnhill & Galland. On October 3,1992, He and michelle got married, then moved to kenwood, on the southside of chicago, and welcomed two daughters years later: Malia and sasha who are 3 years apart.

As a child, Obama did not have a relationship with his father. As a baby his father relocated to massachusetts to attended Harvard university and persue a PH.D. Months later, Obama Parents separated and ultimately divorced in march,1964 when he was two. Obama Sr.
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Growing up without a father figure and trying to become successful with no role model is very difficult,but as long as you are determined and put your mind into it you can succeed and achieve every goal set for in life. President Barack Obama is a monumental an inspirational figure and has inspired me to maintain an positive attitude in any life decision that may occur because anything is possible. Not only was he our first African Amerian president but he was also one of our nations greatest successor who showed the world no matter of the past diffrences in our nation with faith and courage not only can you succeed but also rewrite

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