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Our 44th president was inaugurated into office on January 20, 2009. Barack Obama and John McCain both campaigned to be U.S.'s 44th president but in early 2009 Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the election and as our first black president. Before he was president he served as a United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.