Biography barack obama timeline chart
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Timeline - Obama Presidency Oral History
Oct 3, 2008
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act signed
Nov 4, 2008
President Obama elected
Dec 16, 2008
Economic grupp briefed on stimulus proposals
Jan 20, 2009
President Obama inaugurated
Jan 22, 2009
Guantanamo Bay closure ordered
Jan 29, 2009
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act signed
Feb 17, 2009
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed
Feb 19, 2009
CNBC's Rick Santelli calls for a 21st century "Tea Party" movement
Feb 24, 2009
Address to Congress on economic conditions and the importance of healthcare reform
Mar 20, 2009
First Lady breaks ground on new vit House vegetable garden
Mar 29, 2009
Extension of support to GM and Chrysler
Apr 2, 2009
G20 summit on global financial crisis in London
Apr 5, 2009
Speech on nuclear nonproliferation in Prague
Jun 4, 2009
Speech to the Muslim world in Cairo
Jun 26, 2009
American Clean Ener
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Barack Obama
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
For other uses, see Barack Obama (disambiguation).
"Barack" and "Obama" redirect here. For other uses, see Barack (disambiguation) and Obama (disambiguation).
Barack Obama | |
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Official portrait, 2012 | |
| In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | |
| Vice President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | George W. Bush |
| Succeeded by | Donald Trump |
| In office January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
| Succeeded by | Roland Burris |
| In office January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Alice Palmer |
| Succeeded by | Kwame Raoul |
| Born | Barack Hussein Obama II (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 63) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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| Relatives | Obama family |
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| Awards | Full list |
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Barack Hussein Obama II[a] (born August 4,
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President Barack Obama
Personal
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he was raised by his mother, Ann, and maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. His motherlater married Lolo Soetoro, and his sister Maya was born in 1970. (He also has several siblings on his father’s side.)
Obama moved with his family to Indonesia in 1967, where he attended local Indonesian schools and received additional lessons via U.S. correspondence courses under his mother’s direction.
He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in 1971 and attended Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979. Obama first attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1983.
After graduation, Obama briefly worked as an analyst at Business International