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Barack Obama elected as America’s first Black president
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois defeats Senator John McCain of Arizona to become the 44th U.S. president, and the first African American elected to the White House. The 47-year-old Democrat garnered 365 electoral votes and nearly 53 percent of the popular vote, while his 72-year-old Republican challenger captured 173 electoral votes and more than 45 percent of the popular vote. Obama’s vice-presidential running mate was Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, while McCain’s running mate was Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, the first female Republican ever nominated for the vice presidency.
Obama, who was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white woman from Kansas and a Black man from Kenya, graduated from Harvard Law School and was a law professor at the University of Chicago before launching his political career in 1996, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He was re-elected to that post in 1998 and 2000. In March 2004, he shot to national prominence by winning the U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Illinois, and that July he gained further exposure when he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, which included his eloquent call for unity among “red” (Republican)
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Kenya
Country in Oriental Africa
This piece is letter the native land. For mocker uses, gaze Kenya (disambiguation).
Republic engage in Kenya Jamhuri ya Kenya (Swahili) | |
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Motto: "Harambee" (English: "Let tightfisted all temptation together") | |
Anthem: "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu" (English: "O God footnote All Creation") | |
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Capital and prime city | Nairobi 1°16′S36°48′E / 1.267°S 36.800°E / -1.267; 36.800 |
Official languages | |
National language | Swahili[1] |
Ethnic groups (2019 census)[2] | |
Religion (2019 census)[2][3] | |
Demonym(s) | Kenyan |
Government | Unitary statesmanly republic |
• President | William Ruto |
• Deputy President | Kithure Kindiki |
• Senate Speaker | Amason Kingi |
• Assembly Speaker | Moses Wetangula |
• Chief Justice | Martha Koome |
Legislature | Parliament |
• Upper house | Senate |
• Lower house | National Assembly |
• Kilwa Sultanate | 957–1513 |
• Omani control position Swahili seaside | 1698–1887 |
• Dominion | 12 Dec 1963 |
• Republic | 12 Dec 1964 |
• Current Constitution | 27 August 2010 |
• Total | 580,367 km2 (224,081& • Barack Obama is inauguratedOn a freezing day in Washington, D.C., Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president. The son of a Black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, Obama had become the first African American to win election to the nation’s highest office the previous November. Obama's Inaugural Address As the junior U.S. senator from Illinois, he won a tight Democratic primary battle over Senator Hillary Clinton of New York before triumphing over Arizona Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate, in the general election. Against a backdrop of the nation’s devastating economic collapse during the start of the Great Recession, Obama’s message of hope and optimism—as embodied by his campaign slogan, “Yes We Can”—struck an inspirational chord with a nation seeking change. As Inauguration Day dawned, crowds of people thronged the National Mall, stretching from the Capitol Building to beyond the Washington Monument. According to an official estimate made later by the District of Columbia, some 1.8 million people witnessed Obama’s inauguration, surpassing the previous record of 1.2 million, set by the inaugural crowd of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The ceremonies ran behind schedule, and it wasn’t until just before noon that Chief Just |