Hillary Rodham Clinton
(b. 1947)
George W. Bush
(b. 1946) American Republican statesman, 43rd President of the US 2001–2009
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(b. 4 Aug. 1961),
44th
US President 2009– Born in Hawaii, he graduated from Columbia
University, and became active in social work in Chicago. In 1991, he
obtained a law degree from Harvard, where he had become the first
African‐American President of the Harvard Law Review. Obama moved back
to Chicago, where he was elected to the Illinois Senate as a Democrat in
1996. In 2004 the telegenic moderate became the first African American
to be elected to the US Senate. The second African American after Jesse
Jackson to launch a serious bid for the presidency, Obama collected more
money in donations than any other candidate in the early months of the
campaign. Obama campaigned on his opposition to the Iraq War, and his
ability to overcome the polarization between Democrats and Republicans.
He was selected as the Democratic candidate and convincingly defeated
the Republican John McCain to become the first African‐American
President.
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United States history.
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