Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Hawaii, his father Sr Obama, of Kenyan origins. While his mother Stanley Ann Dunham was of English descent, his parents separated when Obama was a child and lived with his grandparents until his mother completed his mother Education.

Obama graduated from high school in 1979 and moved to Los Angeles to study at Occidental College before moving to Columbia University in 1981 to study political science and international relations. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1983. From 1985 to May 1988, Obama served as a community organizer For low-income citizens living in Roseland and the Altgeld Gardens.
Barack Obama entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1988 and graduated in 1991. During his studies, he was elected president of the College Journal and was the first black youth to be elected, bringing much attention at the national level.

Barack Obama has worked at the University of Chicago Law School as a lecturer since 1992 and was promoted in 1996. Obama joined Miner, Barnhill & Galland as a civil rights lawyer where he served as an assistant from 1993 to 1996 and as a consultant from 1996 to 2004 .

Obama entered politics and won a Democratic seat in the Illinois Senate in 1996, during which he supported a law to increase tax credits for low-income people, improve social welfare and increase childcare benefits. He was re-elected in 1998 and 2002.
Obama decided to run for a seat in the US Senate and unexpectedly succeeded in the primaries. He delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic National party in 2004, which prevailed widely in various media means.

He decided to run for president and announced it in 2007. He won the Democratic party nomination and support to win by a big margin over Republican candidate John McCain in the main elections on November 8, 2008, and became Senator Joe Biden as his deputy. Obama swore in January 20, 2009, at a time when the US economy was suffering from a crisis and a severe recession.

Obama began immediately to implement fiscal reforms to reduce the national debt with a focus also on the education and health care system in the country. His priority was to stabilize the US economy, which had been hit during the global recession.

In his first term as president, Obama supported gay marriage and fought for women's right to make health decisions. It also made the cost of college education more rational for millions of students. All of these policies, along with the pivotal role he played in helping the US economy recover from recession and in controlling terrorism, made him a respected and popular president.

Barack Obama faced Republican rival Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential elections. he won and swore in for a second term on January 20, 2013. In his second term, he advocated full equality for gay.
Barack Obama's term ended on January 20, 2017, just after the inauguration of his successor, Donald Trump. Obama is currently in Washington.