United States President Barack Obama received national attention in 2004 with his March Senate primary win, his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate.
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United States President Barack Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his first two years in office.
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In 2011, United States President Barack Obama ordered the drone-strike killing in Yemen of al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, who was an American citizen.
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United States President Barack Obama ordered military involvement in Libya in order to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1973, contributing to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
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United States President Barack Obama ordered the counterterrorism raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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United States President Barack Obama's administration filed briefs that urged the Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional ; same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in 2015 after the Court ruled so in Obergefell.
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United States President Barack Obama advocated for gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, indicating support for a ban on assault weapons, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning global warming and immigration.
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Since leaving office, Obama has remained active in Democratic politics, including campaigning for candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, appearing at the 2020 Democratic National Convention and campaigning for Biden during the 2020 presidential election.
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Outside of politics, United States President Barack Obama has published three bestselling books: Dreams from My Father, The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land .
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United States President Barack Obama is the only president born outside the contiguous 48 states.
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United States President Barack Obama was born to an American mother and a Kenyan father.
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United States President Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas and was mostly of English descent, though in 2007 it was discovered her great-great-grandfather Falmouth Kearney emigrated from the village of Moneygall, Ireland to the US in 1850.
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United States President Barack Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student on a scholarship.
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United States President Barack Obama left to attend graduate school on a scholarship at Harvard University, where he earned an M A in economics.
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In 1971, United States President Barack Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham.
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United States President Barack Obama attended Punahou School—a private college preparatory school—with the aid of a scholarship from fifth grade until he graduated from high school in 1979.
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In February 1981, United States President Barack Obama made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation's policy of apartheid.
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United States President Barack Obama graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 and a 3.
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Two years after graduating from Columbia, United States President Barack Obama moved from New York to Chicago when he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project, a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale on Chicago's South Side.
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United States President Barack Obama worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.
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United States President Barack Obama helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.
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United States President Barack Obama worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.
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United States President Barack Obama was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year, president of the journal in his second year, and research assistant to the constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe while at Harvard for two years.
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In 1991, United States President Barack Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.
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United States President Barack Obama then taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, first as a lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a senior lecturer from 1996 to 2004.
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United States President Barack Obama has roots in Ireland; he met with his Irish cousins in Moneygall in May 2011.
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United States President Barack Obama lived with anthropologist Sheila Miyoshi Jager while he was a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s.
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United States President Barack Obama proposed to her twice, but both Jager and her parents turned him down.
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In June 1989, United States President Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin.
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The United States President Barack Obama daughters attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
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United States President Barack Obama is a supporter of the Chicago White Sox, and he threw out the first pitch at the 2005 ALCS when he was still a senator.
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United States President Barack Obama is primarily a Chicago Bears football fan in the NFL, but in his childhood and adolescence was a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and rooted for them ahead of their victory in Super Bowl XLIII 12 days after he took office as president.
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In 2011, United States President Barack Obama invited the 1985 Chicago Bears to the White House; the team had not visited the White House after their Super Bowl win in 1986 due to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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United States President Barack Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team, and he is left-handed.
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In 2005, the United States President Barack Obama family applied the proceeds of a book deal and moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to a $1.
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United States President Barack Obama is a Protestant Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life.
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Since moving to Washington, D C, in 2009, the Obama family has attended several Protestant churches, including Shiloh Baptist Church and St John's Episcopal Church, as well as Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, but the members of the family do not attend church on a regular basis.
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From 1994 to 2002, United States President Barack Obama served on the boards of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago—which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund the Developing Communities Project—and of the Joyce Foundation.
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United States President Barack Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995 to 1999.
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United States President Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding Democratic State Senator Alice Palmer from Illinois's 13th District, which, at that time, spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park–Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn.
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Once elected, United States President Barack Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation that reformed ethics and health care laws.
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United States President Barack Obama sponsored a law that increased tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare.
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In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, United States President Barack Obama supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures.
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United States President Barack Obama was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, defeating Republican Yesse Yehudah in the general election, and was re-elected again in 2002.
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In January 2003, United States President Barack Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority.
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United States President Barack Obama sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they detained, and legislation making Illinois the first state to mandate videotaping of homicide interrogations.
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In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U S Senate race.
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United States President Barack Obama created a campaign committee, began raising funds, and lined up political media consultant David Axelrod by August 2002.
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United States President Barack Obama addressed another anti-war rally in March 2003 and told the crowd "it's not too late" to stop the war.
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In July 2004, United States President Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, seen by nine million viewers.
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United States President Barack Obama's speech was well received and elevated his status within the Democratic Party.
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United States President Barack Obama's expected opponent in the general election, Republican primary winner Jack Ryan, withdrew from the race in June 2004.
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United States President Barack Obama took 92 of the state's 102 counties, including several where Democrats traditionally do not do well.
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United States President Barack Obama introduced two initiatives that bore his name: Lugar–Obama, which expanded the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction concept to conventional weapons; and the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, which authorized the establishment of USAspending.
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United States President Barack Obama cosponsored the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act.
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In December 2006, President Bush signed into law the Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act, marking the first federal legislation to be enacted with Obama as its primary sponsor.
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Later in 2007, United States President Barack Obama sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act to add safeguards for personality-disorder military discharges.
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United States President Barack Obama sponsored the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran's oil and gas industry, which was never enacted but later incorporated in the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010; and co-sponsored legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.
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United States President Barack Obama sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries.
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United States President Barack Obama held assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans' Affairs through December 2006.
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United States President Barack Obama became Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs.
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United States President Barack Obama met with Mahmoud Abbas before Abbas became President of the Palestinian National Authority, and gave a speech at the University of Nairobi in which he condemned corruption within the Kenyan government.
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United States President Barack Obama emphasized issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence, and reforming the health care system, in a campaign that projected themes of hope and change.
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United States President Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High stadium to a crowd of about eighty-four thousand; the speech was viewed by over three million people worldwide.
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United States President Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected president.
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United States President Barack Obama delivered his victory speech before hundreds of thousands of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park.
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United States President Barack Obama is one of the three United States senators moved directly from the U S Senate to the White House, the others are Warren G Harding and John F Kennedy.
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United States President Barack Obama ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, but Congress prevented the closure by refusing to appropriate the required funds and preventing moving any Guantanamo detainee.
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United States President Barack Obama revoked President George W Bush's restoration of President Ronald Reagan's Mexico City policy which prohibited federal aid to international family planning organizations that perform or provide counseling about abortion.
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In March 2009, United States President Barack Obama reversed a Bush-era policy that had limited funding of embryonic stem cell research and pledged to develop "strict guidelines" on the research.
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United States President Barack Obama appointed two women to serve on the Supreme Court in the first two years of his presidency.
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United States President Barack Obama ended plans for a return of human spaceflight to the moon and development of the Ares I rocket, Ares V rocket and Constellation program, in favor of funding Earth science projects, a new rocket type, research and development for an eventual crewed mission to Mars, and ongoing missions to the International Space Station.
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United States President Barack Obama supported legislation that would have limited the NSA's ability to collect phone records in bulk under a single program and supported bringing more transparency to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court .
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United States President Barack Obama intervened in the troubled automotive industry in March 2009, renewing loans for General Motors and Chrysler to continue operations while reorganizing.
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In June 2009, dissatisfied with the pace of economic stimulus, United States President Barack Obama called on his cabinet to accelerate the investment.
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United States President Barack Obama signed into law the Car Allowance Rebate System, known colloquially as "Cash for Clunkers", which temporarily boosted the economy.
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Bush and United States President Barack Obama administrations authorized spending and loan guarantees from the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury.
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The economy of the United States has grown faster than the other original NATO members by a wider margin under President Obama than it has anytime since the end of World War II.
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In December 2013, United States President Barack Obama declared that growing income inequality is a "defining challenge of our time" and called on Congress to bolster the safety net and raise wages.
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United States President Barack Obama urged Congress to ratify a 12-nation free trade pact called the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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United States President Barack Obama visited the Gulf, announced a federal investigation, and formed a bipartisan commission to recommend new safety standards, after a review by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and concurrent Congressional hearings.
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United States President Barack Obama then announced a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling permits and leases, pending regulatory review.
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United States President Barack Obama emphasized the conservation of federal lands during his term in office.
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United States President Barack Obama proposed an expansion of health insurance coverage to cover the uninsured, cap premium increases, and allow people to retain their coverage when they leave or change jobs.
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United States President Barack Obama's proposal was to spend $900billion over ten years and include a government insurance plan, known as the public option, to compete with the corporate insurance sector as a main component to lowering costs and improving quality of health care.
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In March 2009, United States President Barack Obama lifted a ban on using federal funds for stem cell research.
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United States President Barack Obama attempted to reach out to Arab leaders by granting his first interview to an Arab satellite TV network, Al Arabiya.
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In 2011, United States President Barack Obama ordered a drone strike in Yemen which targeted and killed Anwar al-Awlaki.
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In March 2015, Obama declared that he had authorized U S forces to provide logistical and intelligence support to the Saudis in their military intervention in Yemen, establishing a "Joint Planning Cell" with Saudi Arabia.
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In 2016, the United States President Barack Obama administration proposed a series of arms deals with Saudi Arabia worth $115billion.
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United States President Barack Obama halted the sale of guided munition technology to Saudi Arabia after Saudi warplanes targeted a funeral in Yemen's capital Sanaa, killing more than 140 people.
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Early in his presidency, Obama moved to bolster U S troop strength in Afghanistan.
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United States President Barack Obama replaced the military commander in Afghanistan, General David D McKiernan, with former Special Forces commander Lt.
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The United States President Barack Obama administration asked Congress to allocate money toward funding the Iron Dome program in response to the waves of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.
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In March 2010, United States President Barack Obama took a public stance against plans by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue building Jewish housing projects in predominantly Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.
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In 2011, the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements, with the United States being the only nation to do so.
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In 2015, Obama was harshly criticized by Israel for advocating and signing the Iran Nuclear Deal; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had advocated the U S congress to oppose it, said the deal was "dangerous" and "bad".
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Some Representatives questioned whether United States President Barack Obama had the constitutional authority to order military action in addition to questioning its cost, structure and aftermath.
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In 2012, United States President Barack Obama authorized multiple programs run by the CIA and the Pentagon to train anti-Assad rebels.
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In 2014, United States President Barack Obama authorized an air campaign aimed primarily at ISIL.
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In November 2013, the United States President Barack Obama administration opened negotiations with Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, which included an interim agreement.
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In December 2011, United States President Barack Obama instructed agencies to consider LGBT rights when issuing financial aid to foreign countries.
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United States President Barack Obama became the fourth U S president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the third to become a Nobel laureate while in office.
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Trump winning the presidency right after United States President Barack Obama was described by some commentators as the culmination of decades of white backlash against Black Americans achieving social mobility in the face of racist policies against them.
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On September 2009, former President Jimmy Carter stated that “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.
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United States President Barack Obama intends for the foundation to be the central focus of his post-presidency and part of his ambitions for his subsequent activities following his presidency to be more consequential than his time in office.
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Many commentators credit United States President Barack Obama with averting a threatened depression and pulling the economy back from the Great Recession.
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In 2010, United States President Barack Obama signed into effect the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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In 2009, United States President Barack Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, which contained in it the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
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United States President Barack Obama substantially escalated the use of drone strikes against suspected militants and terrorists associated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
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United States President Barack Obama left office in January 2017 with a 60 percent approval rating.
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