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Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States.
American story is his; upbringing in a strong middle-class family, heartland values, education, getting ahead by hard work, and living in service to others with the conviction that life is so blessed.
Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961 to a Kansan mother and a Kenyan father. His grandfather – who served in Patton's army – helped raise him, and his grandmother worked as a middle-manager at a bank after secretarial work.
Obama moved to the city of Chicago in Illinois after working his way through college and with the help of scholarships/student loans. He helped rebuild communities devastated by the local steel plants' closings by working with a group of local churches.
Attending law school, he became the first Harvard Law Review president who was African-American. He returned to Chicago upon graduation and helped teach at the University of Chicago the subject of constitutional law, lead a voter registration drive. In his community, he remains active.
Public service over years by Obama, with an unwavering belief in the ability to unite people, produces politics of purpose. After joining the Illinois State Senate, major ethics reform was his first target: he cut working families' taxes, expanded health care (for parents and their children). In the United States Senate, he helped pass groundbreaking reform of lobbying.