Barack Obama Biography

Won a landslide victory over his opponent John McCain and his victory in some Republican strongholds such as Ohio and Virginia on November 4, 2008. Won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2009 match his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples , before completing a year in power.
Graduated from Columbia College at Columbia University and Harvard Law School , and was one of the first African-American assume the presidency of the Harvard Law Review , as he was working in social activities in Chicago before earning his law firm. And worked as a consultant for Civil Rights in Chicago, and has taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Won the three terms in the Illinois Senate and in the period from 1997 to 2004 . Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for the Senate in 2004 , and was able to have a seat on the council in March 2004 , and could this immediately attract the attention of the Democratic Party , and it was his television show , which was broadcast locally during the Democratic National Convention in July of 2004 made ​​him a rising star on the national level in the party. And after he was elected to the Senate in November 2004 and won the largest proportion in the history of Illinois .
Began to contest the presidential election competitions in February of 2007. After a highly competitive campaign within the Democratic Party in order to get the party 's nomination to contest the presidential election was able to get his party 's nomination , after beating rival Hillary Clinton , becoming the first presidential candidate of African descent for a major U.S. party . In the general elections held on November 4, 2008 he was able to defeat the Republican candidate John McCain , and a monument president on January 20 , 2009.