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Former US President Barack Obama speaks at a Biden-Harris drive-in rally in Miami, Florida
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Barack Obama

Barack Obama was elected as the first African American president of the United States in 2008, and won reelection for a second term in 2012. In 2009, the first year he took office, he also received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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