2. Barack Hussein Obama .
II born August 4, 1941, is
the 44th and current
President of the United
States. He is the first
African-American to hold
the office.
3. With a father from Kenya and a mother from
Kansas, President Obama was was raised with help
from his grandfather, who served in Patton's
army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up
from the secretarial pool to middle management at a
bank.
He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud
parents of two daughters, Malia, 13, and
Sasha, 10.
4. In May 2012, he became the first sitting
U.S. president to announce his support
for the legalization of same-sex
marriage. In foreign policy, he ended the
war in Iraq, increased troop levels in
Afghanistan, signed the New START
arms control treaty with Russia, ordered
US involvement in the 2011 Libya
military intervention, and ordered the
military operation that resulted in the
death of Osama bin Laden.
