Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American to serve as President.

Obama was elected over Republican John McCain, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.

Obama served in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008.

Among the many legacies President Obama will leave behind, there is this: he was the best basketball-playing President we've ever had.

Despite the insistence of numerous conspiracy theorists, Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the first President to have been born outside the contiguous 48 states.

Joe Biden was the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The term "Obamacare" was first used by opponents, then reappropriated by supporters, and eventually used by President Obama himself.

President Barack Obama made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter. The second appointment was that of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace the retired John Paul Stevens.

Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT by United States Navy SEALs. The operation was code-named Operation Neptune Spear.

Numerous candidates entered the Democratic Party presidential primaries, but the field quickly narrowed to a duel between Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton, with the race remaining close throughout the primary process. On June 7, 2008, Clinton ended her campaign and endorsed Obama.