A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, making him the first president not born in North America. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. His wife and stepson followed sixteen months later in 1967. The family initially lived in the Menteng Dalam neighborhood in the Tebet sub district of south Jakarta. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President took place on January 20, 2009.
Honolulu, Hawaii,
Honolulu, Hawaii,