Barack Obama

He is the likely candidate of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections of 2008 and the first African American to become an important part of the presumptive nominee for President

A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, has Obama as a community organizer and practiced as a lawyer Servicer civil rights versus the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. The Lehrter constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. After a failed attempt for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a gain of the earth’s victory in March 2004 primary, Obama returned to die at the Democratic National Convention speech in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 of the votes in favour and 70%.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, co-sponsor of the legislation for the control of conventional weapons and to promote greater accountability to the public in the use of funds from the federal government. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, near East and Africa. In the current 110th Congress, sponsored by the law and lobbying cautious in electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism and maintaining U.S. — Returned military personnel. Since his presidential campaign announcement in February 2007, Obama Hut stressed the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq, greater independence in the energy field, lessening the influence of lobbyists, and the promotion of health care generally regarded as the most important national priorities

Early stages of the life and career

Obama, born on 4 August 1961, in Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barack Obama, Sr., a Kenyan Black of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a student abroad. They separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama’s father returned to Kenya and saw her son American nationality only once more before dying in a car accident in 1982. After her divorce, she married Lolo Soetoro Dunham, and the family moved to Soetoro home country Indonesia in 1967, when Obama to local schools in Jakarta until it was ten years ago. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents during the visit Punahou School fifth class in 1971 to his graduation from high school in 1979. Obama’s mother in Hawaii in 1972 for several years after he returned to Indonesia for field work. He died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. [8] The then at Columbia University in New York, where he studied in political science with a specialization in international relations . Obama graduated with a Bachelor of Columbia in 1983, then worked in Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group.

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer of three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Communities Development project (DCP), a church organization of the community originally from eight Catholic parishes in the Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) in the far South Side of Chicago.During his three years as director of the DCP, his staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget increased from $ 70000 to $ 400000, with benefits, including the establishment of a training programme for employment, high - School tutoring program, and tenants’ rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as advisers and trainers for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organization Institute. Mid-1988, he traveled first to Europe for three weeks, then spent five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his relatives from Kenya, for the first time

Obama at Harvard Law School in late 1988 and the end of his first year was elected as editor of the Harvard Law Review on the basis of their scores and a written competition. [16] In his second year he was elected President of the Law Review, full-time volunteers operating position as chief editor and monitor the revision of the legislative staff of 80 editors.the election of Obama in February 1990 as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and was widely reported, followed by several long, detailed profiles. He graduated with a JD magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991 and returned to Chicago, where he worked as a Summer Associate at the offices of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.

The publicity of his choice for the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to an agreement to accept and to write a book on relations between the races.In an effort to recruit teachers, the University of Chicago Law School Obama always with a scholarship and an office to work in his book. The originally planned by the end of the book in a year, but lasted much longer than the paper on a personal memory. In order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife Michelle, travelled to Bali, where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published as a dream of my father, in mid-1995.

Obama of Illinois, led by Project Vote April-October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers, reached its target enrolment 150000, 400000 African-Americans in the state, as Crain’s Chicago Business names on Obama the list of the 1993 “40 under Forty” powers.

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School during a period of twelve years as a teacher for four years (1992-1996) and as a teacher of eight years (1996-2004).

In 1993, Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a lawyer for 12 law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, according to lawyer from 1996 to 2004, with its Right to license increasingly inactive in 2002.

Obama is a founding member of the Board of Public Allies in 1992, before the resignation of his wife, Michelle, was the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago early 1993.He served on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 was the first foundation to finance Obama CMC, 1993-2002, and served on the Board of Directors of the Joyce Foundation, 1994 -2002 . Obama served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge mountain of 1995-2002, as president and founding member of the Board Chairman of 1995-1999. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and hope Lugenia Burns Center