    Congressional Directory for the 112th Congress (2011-2012), December 2011.
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    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                  THE PRESIDENT

        BARACK H. OBAMA, Senator from Illinois and 44th President of the
    United States; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; received a B.A.
    in 1983 from Columbia University, New York City; worked as a community
    organizer in Chicago, IL; studied law at Harvard University, where he
    became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review,
    and received a J.D. in 1991; practiced law in Chicago, IL; lecturer on
    constitutional law, University of Chicago; member, Illinois State
    Senate, 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004; and
    served from January 3, 2005, to November 16, 2008, when he resigned from
    office, having been elected President; family: married to Michelle; two
    children: Malia and Sasha; elected as President of the United States on
    November 4, 2008, and took the oath of office on January 20, 2009.