Barack Obama President of the United States

Barack Obama, elected as the first black president of the United States on 4 november 2008. He is 44th president of US. He is from Democratic Party. This is the first time in US history that an African American won presidential election. Barack Obama done his graduation from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Barack Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and was nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention with Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate. In the 2008 presidential election he won 53% of the popular vote and 364 electoral college votes against Senator John McCain's 46% of the popular vote and 162 electoral college votes.