We are putting out this POTUS series to commemorate the 2012 presidential election. They will all be within the Mississippi Gulf Coast and it will give a small bit of history for each POTUS, and hopefully a fun find.
Born: August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Years in Office: 2009-Present
Fun Facts: Born to a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, Obama worked his way through college, aided also by student loans and scholarships. He attended Occidental College and Columbia University, and went on to attend law school and became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He later taught law at the University of Chicago. Obama became President of the United States on November 4, 2008. He does not like ice cream as a result of working at an ice cream shop as a teenager. Collects Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian comic books.
Why this location: Michelle Obama is a physical fitness advocate and this cache will take you on a short hike.
Did You Know? Obama hosts a basketball game at the White House court each election day. His brother-in-law is Craig Robinson, who has been the Head Coach for both Brown University and Oregon State University's basketball teams.
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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.
In 2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary, his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his election to the Senate in November. He began his presidential campaign in 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was re-elected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013.
Early in his first term in office, Obama signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to the Great Recession in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Other major domestic initiatives in his presidency include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as "Obamacare"; the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010; the Budget Control Act of 2011; and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. In May 2012, he became the first sitting U.S. president to publicly support same-sex marriage and in 2013 his administration filed briefs which urged the Supreme Court to rule in favor of same-sex couples in two high-profile cases. In foreign policy, Obama ended U.S. military involvement in the Iraq War, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U.S. military involvement in Libya, and ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.