Written by: Ayan Basnet - 25019, Grade X
Posted on: 23 January, 2023
Barack Obama is a name well known in the history of America and American politics. He governed the country as its 44th president from 2009 A.D. to 2017. Obama was the first African-American president of the United States and a democratic leader.
Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 (A.D.), in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. His father's name was Barack Obama Sr. who was a Kenyan economist and politician and his mother's name was Stanley Ann Dunham, who was an American. They both first met each other while they were still students in Hawaii. Soon they married each other and had Obama in a few years. Barack Obama may have only met his father once because of his parents' early divorce. After they divorced, Barack’s mother married a man from Indonesia, and Barack had to live in Indonesia too.
He moved back to Honolulu, his first home, before entering the fifth grade, lived with his maternal grandparents, and received a scholarship to Punahou School. He finished his primary education and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before being transferred to Columbia University. He learned political science and international law over there. Finishing his education and aiming to become a lawyer, he enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1988 A.D., where he attracted attention across the country as the school's first African American president of the law review. In 1996, Barack made the decision to enter politics. He entered and won the election for the Illinois State Senate. He had to serve in the state senate until 2004, when he was elected to the United States Senate.
Obama entered the 2008 presidential election after three years in the US Senate. He was well known and liked, and he had attained national recognition for his work and dreams. Obama beat Hillary Clinton in the primary elections before standing against John McCain, the Republican nominee, in the general election. He received a strong electoral victory and was made president on January 20, 2009 A.D. He defeated former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in re-election in 2012 A.D. Obama authorized a secret operation in Pakistan on April 29, 2011, with the goal of locating infamous al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and had been hiding for ten years. This incident made Barack Obama more famous, and he did it for his country and the people of America. This was one of his biggest accomplishments in his career, and he could gratefully resign from the presidency on January 20, 2020, with honor.
