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Barack Obama was elected as the 44th __President__
of the United States of America. He was first elected President on ___November___
4, 2008. He ran as a _____democrate______ against the Republican John McCain.
His Vice-President is Joseph Biden. Barack Obama is the ___first___
African-American president of the __USA__. Obama was elected for a second term
in 2012.
Obama was ___born___ on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu,
___Hawaii__. His father, also named Barack Obama, was from Kogelo, a small ___village___
in Kenya, _____Africa__; his ___mother___, Stanley Ann Dunham, was
from Kansas. Obama was raised by his single mother and his _maternal__
grandparents.
Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983
with a ___degree___ in political science. He then moved to __Chicago__,
Illinois, and worked as a community __organizer___. He graduated from Harvard
____Chicago___ School in 1991, where he was the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review (a prestigious magazine about law, edited
by Harvard law students). He moved back to Chicago and ______married____
Michelle Robinson in 1992; they have two ____daughters____, Malia and Sasha.
Obama was_____elected__ to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, 1998, and 2002
(he lost a primary bid for the House of Representatives in 2000). He was
elected to the US Senate in 2004 (Dem-IL). Obama has written two __books__,
Dreams from My Father (1995) and The Audacity of __Law______ (2006).
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