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Do you know who he is?
The first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review 《哈佛法律评论》 !
The first African-American president in American history!
• Career
• His parents and his early life
• Romantic story
• Obama fashion
Obama graduated with a B.A.(bachelor of arts) 文科学士学位 from
Columbia 哥伦比亚大学 in 1983, then at the start of the following year worked for a year at the Business International Corporation 国
际商务集团 and then at the New York Public Interest Research Gr
oup 纽约公共利益研究所 .
After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Proj
ect (DCP) 社区发展计划 and worked there for three years from Jun
e 1985 to May 1988.
Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the end of his first year, he was selected, based on his grades and a writing competition, as an editor of the Harvard Law Review 《哈佛法律评
论》 .
In February 1990, in his second year, he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the Law Review's staff of eighty editors.
After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude“ 极优等”
（拉丁文的学位荣誉， magna cum laude ）法学士的学位 from Harvard in 1991,
he returned to Chicago.
He served from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago 森林基金会 , and also from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation 乔伊斯基金会 .
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate 伊利诺伊州 in 1996, In January
2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Hum
an Services Committee 卫生公共服务委员会 . He resigned from the Illinois
Senate in November 2004 following his election to the US Senate.
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, August 4, 1961 ,to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Luo from Kenya 肯尼亚 , and Ann Dunham 安•杜汉姆 , a white American from Kansas.
His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii , where his father was a foreign student.
They separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama's father attended Harward Universtiy for his Doctor’s Degree and returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.
After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved
to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia 印度尼西亚 in 1967, where Ob
ama attended local schools until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979.
As an adult Obama admitted that during high school he used marijuana,
cocaine 大麻和可卡因 , and alcohol, which he described at the 2008 Civ
il Forum on the Presidency as his greatest moral failure.
Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.
Michelle
Malia
Aged 10
Sasha
Aged 7
A sweet family
Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm .
They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on
October 3, 1992. The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Sasha, in 2001.
Obama is a fashion icon!
There are campaign buttons, jewellery, teddy bears and even women's g-string underpants--and academics and vendors say the items are being sold at unprecedented levels. 印有选举图案的商品包括竞选运动标牌、珠宝、泰迪熊，甚至女性内裤。据学界和零售业的统计，这些商品的销量达到了史无前例的水平。
