THE BIOGRAPHY OF BARACK OBAMA Barack Obama was the 44th leader of the United States, and the principal African American to serve in the workplace. First chosen to the administration in 2008, he won a second term in 2012.Obama's dad, Barack Obama, Sr., was an adolescent goatherd in provincial Kenya, won a grant to concentrate in the United States, and in the end turned into a senior financial analyst in the Kenyan government. Obama's...