歐巴馬其人其事

Barack Hussein Obama, born on August 4, 1961, is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then at the start of the following year worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP) and worked there for three years from June 1985 to May 1988.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the end of his first year, he was selected, based on his grades and a writing competition, as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In February 1990, in his second year, he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the Law Review's staff of eighty editors.

After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.

He served from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, and also from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation.

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee. He resigned from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to the US Senate.

巴拉克?海珊?歐巴馬，出生於1961年8月4日，是代表美國伊利諾州的聯邦參議員，2008年美國總統選舉民主黨候選人。

1983年在哥倫比亞大學取得學士學位後，歐巴馬在“國際商務集團”和“紐約公共利益研究所”工作了一年。

1985年，他遷往芝加哥，並在之後的三年主持了一個社區發展計畫。

歐巴馬於1988年底進入哈佛法學院。第一年年末，歐巴馬憑藉其出色的成績和在一次論文比賽中脫穎而出，被選為《哈佛法律評論》的編輯。1990年2月，他被選為該學術期刊的主席，任全職主編，手下有八名編輯。

1991年，歐巴馬在哈佛大學獲得了“極優等”（拉丁文的學位榮譽，magna cum laude）法學士的學位，並回到芝加哥。1994年至2002年，歐巴馬分別在芝加哥森林基金會和喬伊斯基金會的董事會任職過一段時間。

1996年，歐巴馬進入政壇，當選伊利諾斯州參議員。2003年1月，歐巴馬被選為伊利諾斯州衛生公共服務委員會主席。2004年11月，他在國會選舉中當選伊利諾斯州聯邦參議員。

2008年11月，當選為首位非洲裔美國總統。