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A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born on August 4 1961 in Hawaii. He is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017