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Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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In 1967, Obama and his mother moved to Jakarta to rejoin his stepfather. The family initially lived in a newly built neighborhood in the Menteng Dalam administrative village of the Tebet subdistrict in South Jakarta for two and a half years.
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In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979
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After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago.
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He enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1988, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
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After graduating from Harvard Law School, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
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In Chicago, Obama worked at various times as a community organizer, lawyer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School in the city's South Side, and later published his memoir "Dreams from my Father" before beginning his political career in 1997 as the Illinois Senate.
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In 2008, he was nominated for president a year after his campaign began, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. He was elected over Republican John McCain and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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After winning re-election by defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a second term 2013.
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He promoted inclusiveness for LGBTQ Americans. His administration filed briefs that urged Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional; same sex marriage was fully legalized in 2015 after the Court ruled that a same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional in Obergefell.
