Barack Obama made history with his presidency, as the only Hawaiian-born president and the first African-American to hold the office.

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017. The former president was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His parents, Barack H. Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, divorced when Obama was 2 years old.

Obama's mother married a man from Indonesia, where the boy spent much of his early years before returning to Honolulu to live with his grandparents.

Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before attending Columbia University to study political science and international relations. He then attended Harvard Law School in 1988.

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After his freshman year, he began working at a Chicago law firm, Sidley & Austin, where he met his future wife Michelle. They married in 1992 and had two children together, Malia and Natasha “Sasha.”

Obama's political tenure began in 1996, when he was elected to the Senate from Illinois. In 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and delivered the highly anticipated keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

In 2007, Barack Obama announced that he would run for president. He won the Democratic nomination against former Republican Senator John McCain. Barack Obama campaigned on the slogan “Change We Can Believe In.”

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Obama defeated McCain to become the 44th President of the United States, the first African-American elected to that office. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.

After four years in office, he ran for a second term. In 2012, he was elected against former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. At the end of his second term, he delivered his farewell address to the nation on January 10, 2017, from Chicago.

Before, during and after his eight years in office, Obama wrote four novels. His first, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” was published in 1995. He then published “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” in 2006.

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In 2010, his book “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters” was released. Obama’s “A Promised Land” hit bookstores in 2020.