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 "Yes
We Can!" Barack
H. Obama, to be sworn in as the 44th
President of the United States.
---
On
November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated
John McCain in the general election with
365 electoral votes to McCain's 173.
---Obama
became
the first African American to be elected
President of the United States. In his
victory speech, delivered before a crowd
of hundreds of thousands of his supporters
in Chicago's Grant Park, Obama proclaimed
that "change has come to
America."
---
On
January 8, 2009, the joint session of the
U.S. Congress met to certify the votes of
the Electoral College for the 2008
presidential election and declares Obama
President.
---
Based
on the results of the electoral vote
count, Barack Obama was declared the
elected President of the United States and
Joseph Biden was declared the elected Vice
President of the United States.
---
The Inaugural
Ceremony for the 44th President of the
United States is scheduled to take place
at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington D.C.,
at noon on January 20th,
2009.
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Part
02
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U. S. PRESIDENT BARACK H.
OBAMA
•
1961
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Married:
Obama's parents on February 2, 1961
•
1961
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Born: Barack Hussein Obama on August 4,
1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Durham,
of English and Irish descent, and Barack
Obama of Nyanza Province, Kenya.. Obama
has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan
father's family, six of them living, and a
half-sister with whom he was raised, Maya
Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of his mother and
her Indonesian second husband
 •
1963
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Separate: Obama's parents separated when
Obama was two years old.
•
1964
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Divorced: Obama's parents in 1964. Obama's
father returned to Kenya and saw his son
only once more before dying in an
automobile accident in 1982.
•
1967
- Married:
Obama's mother Ann Dunham married
Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was
attending college in Hawaii.
•
1967
- Obama's
family moved to Indonesia.
•
1967
- Attended
local schools (1967-1971) in Jakarta, such
as Besuki Public School and St. Francis of
Assisi School, until he was ten years
old.
•
1970
- Barack
Obama's half sister Maya Soetoro is
born.
•
1971
- Returned to Honolulu to live with
his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and
Stanley Dunham.
•
1971
- Attended Punahou School from the
fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation
from high school in 1979.
•
1972
- Obama's mother returned to Hawaii
for five years.
•
1977
- Obama's mother went back to
Indonesia, where she worked as an
anthropological field worker. She stayed
there most of the rest of her life,
returning to Hawaii in 1994.
•
1979
- Graduates from Highschool.
•
1979
-Moved to Los Angeles, where he
studied at Occidental College for two
years.
•
1980
- Ann Dunham files for divorce from
her second husband, Lolo Seotoro.
•
1981
- Obama transferred to Columbia
University in New York City, where he
majored in political science with a
specialization in international relations.
He worked for a year at the Business
International Corporation and then at the
New York Public Interest Research
Group.
•
1982
- Graduated with a B.A. from Columbia
University.
•
1982
- Died. Obama's father, in an
automobile accident.
•
1985
- Worked as Director of the Developing
Communities Project (DCP), a church-based
community organization on Chicago's far
South side, from June 1985 to May
1986.
•
1985
- He was baptized at the Trinity
United Church of Christ and was an active
member there for two decades.
•
1988
- Entered Harvard Law School in late
1988. He was selected as an editor of the
Harvard Law Review at the end of his first
year second year.
•
1989
- Elected
the first
African-American
president
of the Harvard Law Review journal.
•
1988
- In mid-1988, he traveled for the
first time to Europe for three weeks and
then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met
many of his paternal relatives for the
first time.
•
1989
- Obama met his wife, Michelle
Robinson, in June 1989, when he was
employed as a summer associate at the
Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin.
•
1990
- Employed as a summer associate at
Hopkins & Sutter.
•
1991
- Gaduatied with a Juris Doctor (J.D.)
magna cum laude from Harvard.
•
1992
-
Taught constitutional law at the
University of Chicago Law School
(1992-2004).
•
1992
-
Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote
from April to October 1992, a voter
registration drive with a staff of ten and
seven hundred volunteers; it achieved its
goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000
unregistered African Americans.
•
1992
-
Married: Barack Obama marries Michelle
Robinsonn.
•
1994
-
Obama's mother returns to Hawaii.
•
1995
-
Died:
Obama's mother of ovarian cancer, on
November 7.
•
1992
-
Served
for twelve years as a professor at the
University of Chicago Law School, teaching
constitutional law (1992 to 1996).
•
1993
- Joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill &
Galland, a twelve-attorney law firm
specializing in civil rights litigation
and neighborhood economic development,
where he was an associate for three years
from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from
1996 to 2004.
•
1995
- In order to work without
interruptions on his Memoir, Obama and his
wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he
wrote for several months. The manuscript
was finally published in mid-1995.
•
1995
- Dreams From My Father,
published (July 18).
•
1996
- Of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with
lawfirm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill &
Galland.
•
1997
-
Member of the Illinois Senate from the
13th district. Served three terms (Jan.
1997- Nov. 4, 2004).
•
1998
-
Born: First daughter, Malia Ann Obama
•
2000
- Unsuccessful bid for a seat in the
U.S. House of Representative.
•
2001
- Born: Second daughter, Natasha
(Sasha) Obama.
•
2002
- Obama's law license becomes inactive
in 2002.
•
2002
- In mid-2002, Obama began considering
a run for the U.S. Senate; he enlisted
political strategist David Axelrod that
fall and formally announced his candidacy
in January 2003.
•
2002
- Obama, an early opponent of the Bush
administration's policies on Iraq, on
October 2, 2002, the day President George
W. Bush and Congress agreed on the joint
resolution authorizing the Iraq War, Obama
addressed the first high-profile Chicago
anti-Iraq War rally in Federal Plaza,
speaking out against the war.
•
2003
- On March 16, 2003, the day Bush
issued his 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam
Hussein to leave Iraq before the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, Obama addressed the
largest Chicago anti-Iraq War rally to
date in Daley Plaza and told the crowd
that "it's not too late" to stop the
war.
•
2004
-
U.S.
Senate
Campaign.
•
2004
-
Elected to the United States Senate and
sworn in January 4. Obama was the fifth
African-American Senator in U.S. history.
He was the only Senate member of the
Congressional Black Caucus.
•
2004
-
Delivers keynote address at the Democratic
National convention in July 2004. Drawing
examples from U.S. history, he criticized
heavily partisan views of the electorate
and asked Americans to find unity in
diversity, saying, "There is not a liberal
America and a conservative America;
there's the United States of America
•
2005
-
U.S. Senator from Illinois (Jan. 3, 2005
to Nov. 16, 2008.
•
2005
- Applying
the proceeds of a book deal, in 2005 the
family moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago
condominium to their current $1.6 million
house in neighboring Kenwood. The purchase
of an adjacent lot and sale of part of it
to Obama by the wife of developer and
friend Tony Rezko attracted media
attention because of Rezko's indictment
and subsequent conviction on political
corruption charges that were unrelated to
Obama
•
2005
-
Obama also established close relationships
with prominent foreign politicians and
elected officials even before his
presidential candidacy. Met then incumbent
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in
London.
•
2005
-
Met with Italy's Democratic Party leader
and then Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni,
who visited Obama's Senate office in
2005.
•
2006
-
Obama held assignments on the Senate
Committees for Foreign Relations,
Environment and Public Works and Veterans'
Affairs.
•
2006
- The
Audacity of Hope published (Oct. 17).
•
2007
-
In January, he left the Environment and
Public Works committee and took additional
assignments with Health, Education, Labor
and Pensions and Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs. He also became
Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on
European Affairs. As a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama
made official trips to Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. He
met with Mahmoud Abbas before he became
President of Palestine, and gave a speech
at the University of Nairobi condemning
corruption in the Kenyan government.
•
2006
- Met
with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who
also visited him in Washington in
2006.
•
2006
-
Resignation as Unites States Senator on
November 16, 2008.
•
2006
- In
December 2006, President Bush signed into
law the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion
Act, marking the first federal legislation
to be enacted with Obama as its primary
sponsor.
•
2007
- In
January 2007, Obama and Senator Feingold
introduced a corporate jet provision to
the Honest Leadership and Open Government
Act, which was signed into law in
September 2007. Obama also introduced
Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation
Prevention Act, a bill to criminalize
deceptive practices in federal elections
and the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of
2007, neither of which have been signed
into law.
•
2007
-
Candidacy for President. On February 10,
2007, Obama announced his candidacy for
President of the United States in front of
the Old State Capitol building in
Springfield, Illinois.
•
2007
-
Later in 2007, Obama sponsored an
amendment to the Defense Authorization Act
adding safeguards for personality disorder
military discharges. This amendment passed
the full Senate in the spring of 2008
•
2008
- On
June 3, with all states counted, Obama
passed the threshold to become the
presumptive nominee. On that day, he gave
a victory speech in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Clinton suspended her campaign and
endorsed him on June 7. From that point
on, he campaigned for the general election
race against Senator John McCain, the
Republican nominee.
•
2008
- On
June 19, Obama became the first
major-party presidential candidate to turn
down public financing in the general
election since the system was created in
1976.[104]
•
2008
- On August 23, 2008, Obama selected
Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his vice
presidential running
mate.
•
2008
-
Died: Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham
on November 2.
•
2008
-
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated
John McCain in the general election with
365 electoral votes to McCain's 173, and
became the first African American to be
elected President of the United States. In
his victory speech, delivered before a
crowd of hundreds of thousands of his
supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Obama
proclaimed that "change has come to
America"
•
2008
-
November 5, 2008 - Barack Obama wins the
US Presidential Election and becomes the
first African-American President of the
United States
•
2008
-
Person of the Year. In December Time
magazine named Barack Obama as its Person
of the Year for his historic candidacy and
election, which it described as "the
steady march of seemingly impossible
accomplishments.
•
2009
- Declared
President-elect. On January 8, 2009, the
joint session of the U.S. Congress met to
certify the votes of the Electoral College
for the 2008 presidential election. Based
on the results of the electoral vote
count, Barack Obama was declared the
elected President of the United States and
Joseph Biden was declared the elected Vice
President of the United States.
•
2009
- 44th President Inaugural Ceremony at
the U.S. Capitol, at noon on January 20th,
2009.
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