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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize Winner for year 2009 is the 44th president of USA, to head the country of USA. Born on August 4, 1961, he completed his graduation in political science from the Columbia University in the year 1983. He went on for further studies and earned the degree in law from the Harvard University in the year 1991.
Barack Obama started his political career as a State Senator from Illinois in 1996, serving as the state senator for the three terms (1996-2004). In the year 2004, although being a Democrat, Obama won the election with 70% votes although the year 2004 election is marked by the gain of the republics.
In the 109th Congress, as a democratic member, Obama enacted the major reforms like the transparency legislation and the conventional weapons control. Obama is again noted for the fact that he had put a great emphasis on ending the Iraq War and implemented some universal health care campaigns. While serving as the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama worked with great effort in the taxation field, where he created the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which brought in a 100 million $ tax cuts across the state.
Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidential election of the US for the year 2008, in front of the Old State Capital building located in Springfield in Illinois and thus resigned from his post of junior United States Senator on January 3, 2005.
Obama, the first Afro-American person to become an US president, won the elections defeating his Republican rival, McCain, with a huge margin. Barack Obama campaign for the presidential election is estimated to be the highest in the first half of the year 2007. The campaign raised is estimated to about 58 million US$.
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