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He began his run for the presidency in February 2007.

After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election.

Obama defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first born in Hawaii.