Washington: Barack Obama has been the 44th President of America and he was the first black President of this country. He was sworn in as President on 20 January 2001. Obama was elected a junior senator from the province of Illinois and a Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency in 2008.
Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he was also the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review. He served as a community organizer before completing 3 terms in the 1997 to 2004 Illinois Senate. Not only this, he also completed the practice as a civil rights advocate. From 1992 to 2004, he studied constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law College. After failing to get a seat in the US House of Representatives in 2000, he moved to the US Senate in January 2003 and won the primary in March 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2003.
As a minority Democrat member in the 101st Congress, he was helping to build bills supporting traditional public arms control and greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He has also gone on a state visit to Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In the 110th Congress, he supported the creation of bills related to lobbying and electoral scandals, changes in the environment, nuclear terrorism, and the maintenance of American soldiers returning from war. Barack Obama was honored with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his outstanding contribution to world peace.
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