Unit 3 Fairness for allBarack Hussein Obama Ⅱ (born August 4,1961) is the President elect of the United States.He was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 until his resignation on November 16,2008.Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School ， where he was president of the Harvard Law Review.Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the US.House of Representatives in 2000 ， he announced his campaign for the US.Senate in January 2003 ， won a primary victory in March 2004 ， and was elected to the Senate in November,2004.Obama delivered the Keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.Barack Obama was born at the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women ￡ Children in Honolulu ， Hawaii.His parents met in 1960 while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa ， and married February 2,1961.They separated when Obama was two years old and divorced in 1964.Obama’s father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.Obama’s mother stayed in Indonesia mostof the rest of her life ， and died of ovarian cancer in 1995.Following high school ， Obama moved to Los Angeles ， where he studied at Occidental College for two years.He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City ， where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.Obama graduated with a B ． A.from Columbia in 1983.Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 and graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard in 1991.Then he returned to Chicago.Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years ， being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996 ， and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.He was elected president of the USA in 2008 and took office in January 24,2009.He was elected president again in 2012.谢谢观看！
