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Barack Obama

44th President of The United States

Incumbent

Assumed Office 

January 20th, 2009

Barack Hussein Obama II (US ⁱ/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ bə-rahk hoo-sayn oh-bah-mə;^[1][2] born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to be elected to the U.S. presidency and the first one born outside the contiguous United States. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicagobefore earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. While serving three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, he ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for the United States House of Representatives in 2000 against incumbent Bobby Rush. 
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President of the
United States of America


Presidential Seal


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Incumbent
Barack Obama 
Since January 20th, 2009

The President of the United States (POTUS)^{[7][note 1]} is the elected head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

The President is considered to be one of the world's most powerful political figures, as the leader of the only contemporary globalsuperpower.^{[8][9][10][11]} The role includes being the commander-in-chief of the world's most expensive military with the second largest nuclear arsenal and leading the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP. The office of President holds significant hard and softpower both in the United States and abroad.

Article II of the U.S. Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The power includes execution of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory and judicial officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers with the advice and consent of the Senate. The president is further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves, and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under extraordinary circumstances.^[12] The president is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of the party to which the president is a member. The president also directs the foreign and domestic policy of the United States.^[13] Since the office of President was established in 1789, its power has grown substantially, as has the power of the federal government as a whole.^[14]

The president is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term, and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the Vice President of the United States.^[15] The Twenty-second Amendment (adopted in 1951) prohibits anyone from ever being elected president for a third term. It also prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person's term as president. In all, 43 individuals have served 44 presidencies (counting Grover Cleveland's two non-consecutive terms separately) spanning 56 full four-year terms.^[16] On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th and current president. On November 6, 2012, he was re-elected. His second term expires at noon on January 20, 2017. At that time, Donald Trump, having won the 2016 presidential election, is scheduled to be inaugurated as the nation's 45th president.
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SOURCE - Wikipedia