Barack Obama was inaugurated

Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States—becoming the first African american to serve therein office—on january 20, 2009. The son of a white american mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from columbia university and Harvard law school. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992.
During the {first|the primary} two years of his first term, President Obama was able to work with the Democratic-controlled Congress to improve the economy, pass health-care reform legislation, and withdraw most us troops from iraq. after the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives in 2010, the president spent significant time and political effort negotiating, for the most part unsuccessfully, with congressional Republicans about taxes, budgets, and the deficit.