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Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first Jamaican-Asian-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is ...
President Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European ancestry. [1] [2] His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), [3] was a Luo Kenyan [4] from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. [5]
The claim: John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States. In the past few years, multiple social media posts have declared John Hanson, not Barack Obama, as the first Black ...
First president to appoint a Muslim American as an Article III judge (Zahid Quraishi). [578] First president to appoint a female and Asian American United States Trade Representative (Katherine Tai). [574] First president to appoint a Black woman and former federal public defender to the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson). [579] [580]
A U.S. presidential library typically stands as a marker of time for a commander and chief and his years of The post Obama, America’s first Black president, puts the spotlight on others with ...
First African-American president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: The Most Reverend Wilton Daniel Gregory (see also: 2020) First African-American president of the Unitarian Universalist Association: Rev. William G. Sinkford; First African-American president of an Ivy League university: Ruth J. Simmons at Brown University
George Washington, widely viewed as the first president, was elected into office in 1789 after leading the Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.
The distinct possibility of an African American becoming elected was realized as the Democratic primary elections got underway in early 2008. Obama emerged as a serious contender for the nomination [26] and was the first African American to win the designation of a major party in a United States presidential election. As the Democratic Party's ...