Barack Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, from January 2009 to January 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was the first African American to be elected to the presidency. Prior to his presidency, Obama served as a United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he worked as a community organizer and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama is also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
