Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is a politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, the first African-American to hold the office. He also served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the 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.
Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for United States Senate in 2004. His victory, from a crowded field, in the March 2004 Democratic primary raised his visibility. His prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 made him a rising star nationally in the Democratic Party. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 by the largest margin in the history of Illinois.
He began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination, becoming the first major party African American candidate for president. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Obama was re-elected president in November of 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013. He left office on January 20, 2017, and was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who won the 2016 election.
Alternate versions of Obama have been found throughout the multiverse, some where he was still elected president, others where he is not, and some that are completely different:
- Barack Obama, 44th and last President of the United States (12/14)
- Barack Obama, 43rd Prime Minister of the United States of America (A United Kingdom of Scandinavia)
- Barack Obama, 45th President of the United States (Al Gore Wins Florida)
- Barack Obama, 44th Prime Minister of the North American Union (Albany Congress)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (American Destiny)
- Barack Obama, 2nd President of the Washington Republic (American Division)
- Barack Obama, Senator from Kenya (Anglo-American Union)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Believe in America)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Biden '88)
- Barack Obama, 82nd United States Attorney General (Broken glass ceiling)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (The Byrd Timeline)
- Barack Obama, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hawaii (Cinco De Mayo)
- Barack Obama, 13th President of Hawaii (Differently)
- Barack Obama, 45th and 48th President of the United States (Double Collapse: The Entire Collapse of Communism)
- Barack Obama, 41st President of the United States (For Want of a Telegram)
- Barack Obama, 40th Governor of Illinois (Governor Obama)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America (Great Empires)
- Barack Obama, prominent Midwestern African-American nationalist and activist (The Hammer, The Sickle, The Earth)
- Barack Obama, current United States Senator from Illinois (Hillary '08)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (JFK Survives)
- Barack Obama, 25th Chancellor of California (Joan of What?)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (King of America)
- Barack Obama, 47th President of the United States (Timeline (Losers Become the President))
- Barack Obama, 46th President of the United States (Myers Way)
- Barack Obama, Minister of Finance in the French Empire (Nelson's Death)
- Barack Obama, President of the American Union (New America)
- Barack Obama, 1st Earl Obama and British Ambassador to Sweden (Oldenburg Sweden)
- Barack Obama, 46th President of the United States (One Vote)
- Barack Obama, 34th President of the Republic of California (Pax Columbia)
- Barack Obama, former United States Senator from Illinois (President Clinton)
- Barack Obama, Senior US Senator from Illinois (President Delay)
- Barack Obama, 45th President of the United States (President Jobs)
- Barack Obama, Junior US Senator from Illinois and front runner for 2012 Democratic nomination (President McCain)
- Barack Obama, Prominent lawyer during the Second Red Scare (President Welles)
- Barack Obama, 45th President of the United States (Progressive Success)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Real Hope and Change)
- Barack Obama, 4th President of the American Federation (Red Victory)
- Baraccus Obamacus, President of Ethiokenya (Rome Endures)
- Barack Obama, Junior US Senator from Illinois and the 2008 Democratic nominee (SIADD)
- Barack Obama, 86th United States Attorney General (Shpadoinkle Timeline)
- Barack Obama, 4th Secretary-General of the United Communities on the Moon (Space Race Didn't End)
- Barack Obama, 40th Vice President of the United States (Victory at Gettysburg)
- Barack Obama, current United States Senator from New York (Without Sin)
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