Barack Obama

BIRTH NAME
Barack Hussein Obama II

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
United Church of Christ, then unaffiliated Christian

EDUCATION
Occidental College; Columbia BA 1983; Harvard Law School JD 1991

VITALS
6 ft 1 in / 180 lbs

CAREER
1985-88 Community organizer, Chicago, Illinois
1991-92 Visiting Law & Government Fellow, University of Chicago Law School
1992-2004 Law lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
1993-2004 Practiced law, Chicago
1997-2004 State Senator, Illinois
2000 Unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Representative, Illinois
2005-08 U.S. Senator, Illinois

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 4, 2008
Popular: Obama 69,456,897 (53%) John McCain 59,934,814 (46%)
Electoral: Obama 365 McCain 173
November 6, 2012
Popular: Obama 65,899,660 (51%) Mitt Romney 60,932,152 (47%)
Electoral: Obama 332 Romney 206

VICE PRESIDENT
Joseph R. Biden (2009-17)

ADMINISTRATION
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, Nobel Peace Prize (2009); Affordable Care Act (2010); Death of Osama bin Laden (2011); Supreme Court same-sex marriage case (2015); Iran Nuclear Weapons Treaty (2016)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan

FIRST LADY
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson (2009-17)

“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still.”
Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 2013

Portrait of Barack Obama by Robert McCurdy, 2018.