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Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II
(; born August 4, 1961) is an
American
politician currently serving as the
44th
President of the United States
, the
first
African American
to hold the office. Born in
Honolulu, Hawaii
, Obama is a graduate of
Columbia University
and
Harvard Law School
, where he served as president of the
Harvard Law Review
. He was a
community organizer
in
Chicago
before earning his
law degree
. He worked as a
civil rights
attorney and taught
constitutional law
at
University of Chicago Law School
between 1992 and 2004. He
served three terms
representing the 13th District in the
Illinois Senate
from 1997 to 2004,
running unsuccessfully
for the
United States House of Representatives
in 2000 against
Bobby Rush
.
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