The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-09
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"
Barack Hussein Obama
Born: 1961-08-04 in Honolulu, HI, USA
Gender: male
Field: President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Biography
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.