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Today I'm going to write about the peace nobel prize that Barack Obama won in 2009.
Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu (Hawaii). He is son of Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, he has eight brothers and sisters, called Maya Soetoro-Ng, Auma, Malik Abongo, Mark Okoth, David, George, Abo and Bernard.
After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College. In February 1981, Obama made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation's policy of apartheid. He graduated with a BA degree in 1983 and worked for a year at the Business International Corporation, then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. In 1985, Obama was among the leaders of May Day efforts to bring attention to the New York City Subway system, which was in a bad condition at the time. Obama traveled to several subway stations to get people to sign letters addressed to local officials and the Metropolitan Transporatation Authority, and was sphotographed at the city College subway station holding a sign protesting againts the system's conditions.
Obama was elected and re-elected in 1996 and 1998 to the Illions senagte. In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U.S. Senate race. he created a campaign committee, began raising funds, and lined up political media consultant David Axerlod by August 2002. Obama formally announced his candidancy in January 2003.
In January 2005 Obama was a storm in as a senator becoming the only Senate member of the Congressional Black Caucus CQ Weekly characterized him as a "loyal Democrat" based on analysis of all Senate votes from 2005 to 2007. Obama announced on November 13, 2008, that he would resign his Senate seat on November 16, 2008 before the start of the lame-duck session, to focus on his transition perios for the presidency.
Obama became the president of the United States on january 20 of 2008 and he will finish his presidency officially on January 20 of 2017, replaced by Donald Trump.
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