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Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-ish-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also ...
President Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European ancestry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), [ 3 ] was a Luo Kenyan [ 4 ] from Nyang'oma Kogelo , Kenya. [ 5 ]
The distinct possibility of an African American becoming elected was realized as the Democratic primary elections got underway in early 2008. Obama emerged as a serious contender for the nomination [26] and was the first African American to win the designation of a major party in a United States presidential election. As the Democratic Party's ...
First African-American president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: The Most Reverend Wilton Daniel Gregory (see also: 2020) First African-American president of the Unitarian Universalist Association: Rev. William G. Sinkford; First African-American president of an Ivy League university: Ruth J. Simmons at Brown University
In January 2009, Barack Obama became the first Black president of the United States. We rate this claim as FALSE, based on our research. Our fact-check sources:
Barack Obama, first African-American president of the United States; African-American candidates for President of the United States; African-American heritage of presidents of the United States, including unsubstantiated rumors; African-American presidents of the United States in popular culture
The last time leaders of the African continent were invited to the White House, Barack Obama was president. It was August 2014, and the world was grappling with a deadly virus: Ebola. And Joe ...
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with their own administration. [10] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on ...