Barack Hussein Obama II ( / bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə / ( listen) bə-RAHK hoo-SAYN oh-BAH-mə; [1] born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States. [2]

A Promised Land by Barack Obama Crown In the spring of 2004, a young state legislator was driving home from a campaign event in rural Illinois when he got a phone call from Washington.

He was born to an American mother and a Kenyan father. His mother, Ann Dunham (1942–1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas and was of English, Welsh, German, Swiss, and Irish descent. In 2007 it was discovered her great-great-grandfather Falmouth Kearney emigrated from the village of Moneygall, Ireland to the US in 1850. [11]

The former president, 61, wished Michelle Obama a happy birthday as she turns 59, alongside an Instagram photo of them cuddling up with his arms around her as they looked out over a balcony.

SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: (Cheers, applause.) Hello, Chicago. (Cheers, applause.) If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders.

Barack Obama: 185: James Monroe: 183: John Tyler: 183: Gerald Ford: 183: Warren G. Harding: 183:.

Former U.S. president Barack Obama now has an Emmy Award to go with his two Grammys. He won the best narrator award on Saturday for his work on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National.