Barack
Hussein Obama II; (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of
the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Born in
Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law
School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community
organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights
attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago
Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th
District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for
the United States House of Representatives in 2000.
In
2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent
Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic
Party primary, his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in
July, and his election to the Senate in November. He began his presidential
campaign in 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary
Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries
to receive the presidential nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee
John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on
January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
laureate. He was re-elected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee
Mitt Romney, and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013.
Barack Obama net worth and
salary:
Barack
Obama is a former Senator from Illinois and the 44th President of the United
States who has a net worth of $12.2 million dollars. Barack Obama served three
terms in the Illinois Senate and is the first African American President of the
United States. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is a graduate of
Columbia University and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard Law School, he was
the president of the Harvard Law Review. During law school, Obama worked as a
community organizer in Chicago. After graduation Obama worked as a civil rights
attorney in Chicago and from 1992 to 2004 he taught constitutional law at the
University of Chicago Law School. One of the events that brought him national
attention was his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July
2004. Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States in November
2008, and took office in January 2009.
Barack
Obama earned his net worth primarily from the sales of his books The Audacity
of Hope and Dreams of my Father. Barack's wallet began to expand after his much
praised keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that marked
his explosion onto the national conscience. As Obama's profile rose, so did
sales of his 1995 book "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and
Inheritance". In 2005, the Obama's income grew from around $200,000 to a
combined $1.7 million! In 2006 the Obamas reported income of $916,000. Barack's
second book "Audacity of Hope", released in October 2006, was a
massive hit, selling millions of copies and rocketing the Obama's income to
$4.2 million in 2007! Their income continued to swell in the following years
thanks to Barack's 2008 successful campaign and election. To this day, Barack
Obama earns $3.75 for every hardcover copy and $1.12 for every paperback he
sells.
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