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born 1961, US Democrat politician; became 44th president of the US in 2009; Nobel Peace prize 2009.


Obama, Barack

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Few Americans have risen to prominence in American politics as quickly or as dramatically as Barack Hussein Obama, the forty-fourth president of the United States. Fewer still have become instant lightning rods for the tensions and frustrations underlying and nominally dividing America's political culture. Indeed, most Americans' perspectives on the deepening partisan and cultural divisions in the second decade of the twenty-first century are shaped and informed largely by reactions, either favorable or unfavorable, to Barack Obama the man and his policies. I serve as a blank screen, he acknowledged in the preface to The Audacity of Hope (2006), on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. Entering the presidency amid enormous expectations but facing a daunting phalanx of seemingly overwhelming problems, Obama responded within the tradition of America's activist presidents, in the style of both Roosevelts and John F. Kennedy, exhorting with elegant…
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From Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Illinois in November 2004 and sworn into office on January 4, 2005. The same year that he was elected to the U.S. Senate, he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. A presidential…
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From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The first African American to be elected president of the United States, Barack Obama achieved his 2008 victory running as a self-described post-partisan candidate with a left-of-center message emphasizing “change” and “hope.” In that election, coinciding with two protracted wars and the worst…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
forty-fourth president of the United States, from 2009. The 2008 election of Barack Hussein Obama as president of the United States was widely expected within and outside America to herald major changes in U.S. foreign policy. In comparison with those of prior presidents, Obama's personal history…
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From Dictionary of American Government and Politics
Barack Obama is the forty-fourth and, at the time of writing, current president of the United States. He is the first African American to ascend to the highest office. He was born in Hawaii to a black Kenyan father and a white American mother. He graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the…
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From Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II,...
Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is the forty-fourth president of the United States, elected to office on November 4, 2008, and reelected on November 6, 2012. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. His parents, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, met as students at the University…
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From The Gun Debate: An Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights
President Barack Obama has made special efforts...
Barack Obama, a Democrat elected the forty-fourth president of the United States, was also the nation's first African American chief executive. Serving from 2009 to 2017, he served at a time when the nation became ever more aware of the divide over guns. Mass shootings and gun violence received ever…
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From The Oxford Companion to International Relations
the 44th President of the United States. The world is increasingly a place in which America must learn to live among ascending and descending nations. Even the smallest conflicts in faraway parts of the globe may require the time and attention of the American president. Yet Americans are not always…
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US Democratic politician and 44th President. Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and American mother, he served as a Senator from Illinois (2005-8) before winning the 2008 presidential election. Inaugurated in 2009, he became the first President of African-American descent. In October that…
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From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
American Democratic statesman, 44th President of the US from 2009; husband of Michelle obama . See also political sayings and slogans The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too…The audacity of hope! Democratic National Convention keynote address, 27…
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In only four years Barack Obama made an improbable rise from the state legislature of Illinois to the highest office of the United States. The first African American to win the presidency, he made history with his resounding victory in the election of 2008. His eloquent message of hope and change…
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