PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE ON JANUARY 20, 1009, TUESDAY AS THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

44th President of the United States

Assumed office
January 20, 2009

Vice President: Joe Biden
Preceded by: George W. Bush

Barack Hussein Obama II also pronounced as /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/;. He was born on August 4, 1961 is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005 until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency. He was sworn in as President on January 20, 2009 in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.

Obama Barack is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States at 12:05 p.m. EST (17:05 UTC) on January 20, 2009, in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.

President - Barack Obama 2009–present
Vice President - Joe Biden 2009–present
Secretary of State - Hillary Clinton 2009–present
Secretary of Treasury - Timothy Geithner (designate) 2009–present
Secretary of Defense - Robert Gates 2006–present
Attorney General - Eric Holder (designate) 2009–present
Secretary of the Interior - Ken Salazar 2009–present
Secretary of Agriculture - Tom Vilsack 2009–present
Secretary of Commerce - TBA 2009–present
Secretary of Labor - Hilda Solis (designate) 2009–present
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Tom Daschle (designate) 2009–present
Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan 2009 – present
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Shaun Donovan (designate) 2009–present
Secretary of Transportation - Ray LaHood (designate) 2009–present
Secretary of Energy - Steven Chu 2009–present
Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Eric Shinseki 2009–present
Secretary of Homeland Security - Janet Napolitano 2009–present
Chief of Staff - Rahm Emanuel 2009–present
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency - Lisa P. Jackson (designate) 2009–present
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget - Peter Orszag 2009–present
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy - TBA 2009–present
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk (designate) - 2009–present
Director of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy - TBA - 2009–present
United States Trade Representative - Ron Kirk (designate) - 2009–present

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Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - President Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration and Address video clips

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