Barack Obama

Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii. He studied political science at Columbia University and law at Harvard University. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago and was the first Black person to serve as president of the prestigious "Harvard Law Review." He worked as a lawyer and fought for the protection of human rights and against racial and social discrimination. In 1992, he led the "VOTE" program and successfully registered 150,000 new voters. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and became a U.S. Senator for Illinois in 2004. In 2004, he was the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention. During his Senate tenure, he opposed the Iraq War and advocated for healthcare system reform. In February 2007, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination for the 2008 elections. In November 2008, he was elected as the first African American President of the United States. In 1995, he published the book "Dreams from My Father" (Greek edition: "Εικόνες του πατέρα μου," Adam Editions, 2008).