Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II. (1961 - ). American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party.
Noteworthy
- First African American to serve as president.
- Represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 2005 to 2008.
- Served as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
- Born in Honolulu.
- First Black president of the Harvard Law Review.
- Taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
- Awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts in international diplomacy.
- Book: Dreams from My Father (1995).
- Book: The Audacity of Hope (2006).
- Book: A Promised Land (2020).
Controversies
- Ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
- Appointed two women to serve on the Supreme Court.
- Signed 23 executive orders and outlined a series of sweeping proposals regarding gun control.
- Signed a four-year renewal of the Patriot Act.
- Condemned the 2013 surveillance disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden as unpatriotic.
- Signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.
- First U.S. president in office to call for full equality for gay Americans.
- Proposed and signed law tp expand health insurance coverage (aka ObamaCare) to cover the uninsured, cap premium increases, and allow people to retain their coverage when they leave or change jobs.
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