President Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th President of the United States. President was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His mother is from Kansas and father from Kenya. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army and his grandmother. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.
He is a member of the Democratic Political Party. He was serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee. He became United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008.
During the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, tax cuts, increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care.
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the general election with 365 electoral votes to McCain's 173 and became the first African American President. It is really unexpected, because president of the United States of America was always WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant). Barack Obama isn't white and also he is Christian.
He was sworn on January 20, 2009. The Cabinet of the new president:
Department of State - Hillary R. Clinton
Department of the Treasury - Timothy F. Geithner
Department of Defense - Robert M. Gates
Department of Justice - Eric H. Holder
Department of the Interior - Ken L. Salazar
Department of Agriculture - Tom J. Vilsack
Department of Commerce (it consist of many Departmental Offices)
Department of Labor - Hilda L. Solis
Department of Health and Human Services - Tom A. Daschle
Department of Housing and Urban Development - Shaun Donovan
Department of Transportation - Ray H. LaHood
Department of Energy - Steven Chu
Department of Education - Arne Duncan
Department of Veterans Affairs - Eric K. Shinseki
Department of Homeland Security - Janet Napolitano