====== Barack Obama ======

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**Barack Hussein Obama II** is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the [[United States of America]] from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African-American president of the United States.((//Obama wins historic US election.// (2008, November 5). BBC. https://archive.ph/hM8Q)) A member of the [[Democratic Party]], he previously served as a U.S. senator from [[united_states_of_america:Illinois]] from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.