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Template:Barack Obama
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Barack Obama Event Timeline
Barack Obama (44) Event Timeline
01/20/2009 – 01/20/2017
2008
09/27/2008
Accepts the nomination of the Democratic party for the 2008 election.
11/04/2008
Election Day. Obama defeats John McCain with 53% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote. Obama wins in states previously considered to be Republican—Indiana, North Carolina.
2009
01/20/2009
Inaugural Address.
01/22/2009
Executive Order 13491, Ensuring Lawful Interrogations. Directs that detainees in armed conflict shall be treated humanely and not be subject “to violence to life and person” or “outrages to personal dignity.”
01/22/2009
Executive Order 13492 directs review of cases in order to close Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, a controversial military prison for terrorism suspects.
01/29/2009
Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, to skydda workers against pay discrimination.
02/04/2009
Treasury Depa
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Barack Obama / Barack Obama - Key Events
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. He was the first African American President in U.S. history.
Obama emerged as an unlikely candidate during the 2008 presidential campaign. He was born and raised in Hawaii. His mother, a white American from Kansas, and his father, a black Kenyan studying in the United States, met as students at the University of Hawaii. After attending school in Hawaii, Obama moved to the mainland for college—first attending Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and then graduating from Columbia University in New York City.
Obama then moved to Chicago, Illinois, and began working as a community organizer, helping low-income residents improve their public housing conditions. In 1988, he enrolled at Harvard Law School. During the 1990-1991 academic year, he was president of the prestigious Harvard lag Review, the first African American elected to