The Current U.S.

President
Barack Obama
A short biography
Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black
Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., who were both young college students at the
University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed
behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a
government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and
moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as
simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to
Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a
small apartment - his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful
insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank - but Barack managed to
get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him
regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya,
he visited only once, when Barack was ten. Obama attended Columbia University,
but found New York's racial tension inescapable. He became a community
organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor
South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard
Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard
Law Review. He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to
practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and
employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also
began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, and married Michelle
Robinson, a fellow attorney. Eventually he was elected to the Illinois state senate,
where his district included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the
South Side. In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat,
representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and wellreceived keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In
2008 he ran for President, and despite having only four years of national political
experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the
United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position. Obama
was reelected to a second term in November 2012.
Political party: Democratic

President Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States.

He was born on August 4th, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a mother from
Kansas, Stanley Ann Dunham, and a father from Kenya, Barack Obama Sr. He was
also raised by his grandfather, who served in Pattons army, and his grandmother,
who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to become vice president at a
local bank.
He worked his way through schoolOccidental College in Los Angeles,
Columbia University in New York, and later, Harvard Law Schoolwith the help
of scholarship money and student loans.
In 1985, Barack Obama moved to Chicago, where he got his start in community
organizing on the citys South Side, working to help rebuild communities
devastated by the closure of local steel plants.
The President called that time in his life "the best education I ever had, better
than anything I got at Harvard Law School." He has credited that experience as
crucial to finding his identitysomething that shaped his path to the White House.
Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. During his time
in Springfield, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for
working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. Elected
to the U.S. Senate in 2004, he reached across the aisle to pass the farthest-reaching
lobbying reform in a generation, lock up the worlds most dangerous weapons, and
bring transparency to government by tracking federal spending online.
Barack Obama was sworn in as president on January 20th, 2009, in the middle
of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, at a time when our
economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month. He acted immediately to get our
economy back on track. Since then, the private sector has added back more than 10
million jobs during the longest, uninterrupted period of job growth in our nations
history.
In his first term, the President cut taxes for every American workerputting
$3,600 back in the pockets of the typical family. He passed historic Wall Street
reform to make sure taxpayers never again have to bail out big banks. He passed
the landmark Affordable Care Act, helping to put quality and affordable health care
within reach for millions of Americans. He ended the war in Iraq and is working to
responsibly end the war in Afghanistan.
Hes the first sitting president to stand up for marriage equality, and is fighting
for equal pay and a womans right to make her own health decisions. Hes made a
college education more affordable for millions of students and their families. And
he believes its time for a comprehensive solution to fix our broken immigration
system.

The President believes an economy that's built to last starts by growing and
strengthening the middle classthats why he has a plan to create jobs and restore
economic security to working families. Hes been driven by the basic values that
make our country great: America prospers when were all in it together, when hard
work pays off and responsibility is rewarded, and when everyonefrom Main
Street to Wall Streetdoes their fair share and plays by the same rules.
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Joseph Robinette Joe Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is the 47th and
current Vice President of the United States. He is a member of the Democratic
Party and is from Wilmington, Delaware. Before becoming Vice President, he was
a U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009. He had served in the Senate
longer than any other Vice President. He tried to become the Democratic candidate
for President twice, in 1988 and 2008, but did not win. He is a Roman Catholic.
Biden has received several awards. He has five honorary doctorates, including one
from his alma mater and one from where he has taught law. He has also earned the
"Best of Congress Award" and an award from the Pakistani government.
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the current United States
Secretary of State.
He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and was re-elected in 1990, 1996, 2002
and 2008. While serving in the Senate, he has supported free trade, expansive U.S.
foreign and military policy, investment in education and environmental protection.
In 2004, Kerry lost the presidential election to George W. Bush. He was nominated
to be secretary of state by President Barack Obama in 2012.
Kerry made his first bid for public office in 1972, but he failed in this attempted
run for Congress. Kerry then pursued a law career, enrolling at Boston College
Law School. In 1976, Kerry graduated from law school and used his degree to
work in public service. His first legal job was working for the District Attorney of
Middlesex County in Massachusetts.
After a few years in private practice, Kerry assumed his first political position in
1982. He served as the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts under Michael
Dukakis. Kerry soon moved on to the national stage, winning one of
Massachusetts' Senate seats in 1984. He was re-elected in 1990, 1996, 2002 and
2008.
While serving in the Senate, Kerry has earned a reputation as a left-of-center
legislator. He supports free trade, expansive U.S. foreign and military policy,
investment in education, environmental protection and growth of the high tech
New Economy. He has also continued his work on behalf of Vietnam veterans,
leading a Senate committee to ensure that there are no POWs left in that country.
John Andrew Boehner ([benr], born November 17, 1949) is the current Speaker
of the United States House of Representatives.
Boehner is a member of the Republican Party. He served in the Ohio State House
from 1985 to 1990. In 1990, he became a Congressman (a member of the United
States House of Representatives. He represents the area north of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Boehner served as chair of several important committees before becoming

Minority Leader in 2006. While minority leader, Boehner was one of the main
people who were critical of President Obama. When the Republicans took back the
House of Representatives in the 2010 elections, Boehner became Speaker of the
House.