Barack Obama — 44th President of the United States
44th President of the United States, Democratic
Barack Obama
Term: Jan 20, 2009 – Jan 20, 2017
Barack Obama (born 1961) was the forty-fourth president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017, and the first Black person to hold the office. He signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, which extended health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, and oversaw the economic recovery following the 2008 financial crisis. His administration also significantly expanded the use of drone strikes in counterterrorism operations and maintained military deployments in Afghanistan and other countries throughout both terms.
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”