Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in and served there for eight years. In , he was elected by a record majority to the US Senate from Illinois and, in February , announced his candidacy for president. He is the author of multiple books on American politics and government.
The photograph was taken by Pete Souza, the newly announced official White House photographer. It was the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera. Senator Barack Obama speaks with the crowd at a campaign stop during the presidential election of Obama was often on the campaign trial in casual clothes and frequently spoke directly to voters, two things which contributed to his appeal to everyday Americans.
When President Barack Obama moved into the White House, it became livelier than it had been in decades. With Obama came, from left , daughter Sasha, wife Michelle, daughter Malia, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson not pictured. This official family portrait was taken by Annie Leibovitz.
On the 50th anniversary of the violent clashes between civil rights activists and police in Selma, President Obama, his family, and civil rights supporters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Thomas J. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Real change—big change—takes many years and requires each generation to embrace the obligations and opportunities that come with the title of Citizen.
Few presidents have walked a more improbable path to the White House. Born in Hawaii to a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya, Obama was raised with help from his grandparents, whose generosity of spirit reflected their Midwestern roots. The homespun values they instilled in him, paired with his innate sense of optimism, compelled Obama to devote his life to giving every child, regardless of his or her background, the same chance America gave him. After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants.
That experience honed his belief in the power of uniting ordinary people around a politics of purpose, in the hard work of citizenship, to bring about positive change. He then moved toward the political center to wage his general election campaign against Republican nominee Jack Ryan, an attractive candidate who, after making hundreds of millions of dollars as an investor, had left the business world to teach in an inner-city Chicago school.
Obama won by the largest margin in the history of Senate elections in Illinois, 70 percent to 27 percent. In addition to his election, the other highlight of for Obama was his wildly successful keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
Obama also used the phrase as the title of his second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream , which became a national bestseller in the wake of his newfound national popularity.
I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. 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.
President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online.
He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, , and sworn in on January 20,
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