Barack Obama. The 44th and current President of the United States.

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American President. He is laureate of Nobel Peace Prize He was a federal senator of Illinois before being elected to the presidency. He was re-elected for a second term in Obama is a mulatto, but, unlike most black Americans, not a descendant of slaves, and the son of a student from Kenya and a white American (Stanley Ann Dunham). Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review.

Private life He met his wife, Michelle Obama in the 90s, and in 1992 Barack and Michelle got married. In 1998 Michelle gave a birth to their daughter, Malia Ann. And in 2001 their second daughter, Natasha, was born. Barack and Michelle look happy and harmonious like a pair, but their family life was not so smooth. On the spring 2010 American magazine Globe published the information, that six years ago Obama had an affair with 29- year-old Vera Baker, who worked in his campaign headquarters. Also there is a rumour that Barack and Michelle are going to divorce.

Achievements during the years of his presidency Put an end to war in Iraq Introduced health care reform Relationship with Russia got worse Made a number of economic and political reforms by spending 787 billion dollars. Legalized homosexual marriages

Interesting facts. He collects comic books of Spider-Man. He won a Grammy in He is left-handed. As a teenager he worked in a Baskin-Robbins, and since then hates ice cream. In Indonesia, he had a monkey named Tata. His favorite book is "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. His favorite movies is "Casablanca" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest“. He does not drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol. If it were not the political activity, he would become an architect. As a teenager, he used drugs (marijuana and cocaine).