Barack Hussein Obama is an American attorney and politician. He served as the 44th president of the United States and the first black president of the U.S.
The law graduate from Columbia University got enrolled into Harvard Law School in 1988, becoming the first black man to head the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation as an attorney, he went straight into academics by teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004.
Delving into politics, Obama was the 13th District representative between 1997 and 2004 in the Illinois State, from where he went to the United States Senate. While in the senate, he cosponsored the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. He introduced two initiatives that bore his name: Lugar–Obama, which expanded the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction concept to conventional weapons; and the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, which authorized the establishment of USAspending.gov, a web search engine on federal spending.
In January 2007, Obama and Senator Feingold introduced a corporate jet provision to the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, which was assented to in September 2007.
Also in 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act to add safeguards for personality-disorder military discharges.
In the 2008 U.S presidential election, Obama of the Democratic Party defeated John McCain of the Republican Party to emerge as the winner of the close tie election. His victory got the rest of the world astonished as the first Black man to take the seat of almighty power in the United States. Obama delivered his speech of victory before hundreds of thousands of supporters in Chicago’s Grant Park.
In his first 100 days in office, the first bill signed into law by Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, relaxing the statute of limitations for equal-pay lawsuits. Five days later, he signed the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover an additional 4 million uninsured children. On October 30, 2009, Obama lifted the ban on travel to the United States by those infected with HIV, which was celebrated by Immigration Equality.
Obama advances in his presidential feat by being re-elected president for the second term in 2012 after defeating Mitt Romney of the Republican Party. Obama was sworn in for a second term in 2013.
Speaking on his victory, Obama addressed supporters and volunteers at Chicago’s McCormick Place after his re-election and said: “Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties.”
During this term, he promoted inclusion for LGBT Americans, and some other acts he signed into law.
On Africa recognition, Obama spoke in front of the African Union in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, on July 29 2015, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. He gave a speech encouraging the world to increase economic ties via investments and trade with the continent, and lauded the progress made in education, infrastructure, and economy.
On performance scale, Obama’s presidency has generally been regarded favorably, and evaluations of his presidency among historians, political scientists, and the general public place him among the upper tier of American presidents.
As a living legend, Obama’s most significant legacy is generally considered to be the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), provisions of which went into effect from 2010 to 2020. Many attempts by Senate Republicans to repeal the PPACA, including a “skinny repeal,” have thus far failed.
In a 2018 survey of historians by the American Political Science Association ranked Obama the 8th-greatest American President. Obama gained 10 spots from the same survey in 2015 from the Bookings Institution that ranked Obama the 18th-greatest American President.
