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President Obama addressing Congress regarding health care reform, September 9, 2009. Tea Party protests in front of the U.S. Capitol, September 12, 2009. President Obama delivering the 2010 State of the Union Address, January 25, 2010. President Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, March 23, 2010.
Barack Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, was elected president of the United States on November 4, 2008 and was inaugurated as the nation's 44th president on January 20, 2009. . Re-elected on November 6, 2012, his second inauguration was on January 20, 2013, and his presidency ended on January 20, 2017, with the inauguration of Donald Tru
[125] [126] In the aftermath of the recession, median household income (adjusted for inflation) declined during Obama's first term, before recovering to a new record high in his final year. [127] The poverty rate peaked at 15.1% in 2010 but declined to 12.7% in 2016, which was still higher than the 12.5% pre-recession figure of 2007.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama from his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009, to December 31, 2009. For his time as president-elect, see the presidential transition of Barack Obama; for a detailed account of his first months in office, see first 100 days of the Barack Obama presidency; for a complete itinerary of his travels ...
President Obama after giving his first presidential speech. The central theme of President Obama's inaugural address was a call to restore responsibility—both in terms of accountability in Washington and the responsibility of ordinary people to get involved. [111] [112] Obama's address did not have memorable sound bite phrases. Instead, he ...
During Obama's first 100 days in office, the 44th president visited nine foreign nations and signed 19 executive orders. ... Shortly after taking office in 2009, Obama signed a bill to provide ...
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
Confederate States Congress: Won: Died before he could take office (had served in unelected Provisional Congress). [12] Only former president to ever run for an office outside the United States. Andrew Johnson: 1865–1869: Denied nomination by his party: 1872: U.S. House of Representatives: Lost: Ran as an Independent and finished 3rd in the ...