At 12 o'clock Beijing time on November 5, 2008, Mr. Barack Obama was elected as the President of the United States on Tuesday evening local time in the United States. He easily defeated his Republican rival John McCain and will become the first African American president in US history. He won 297 electoral votes first and was elected the 45th President of the United States.
Obama's vote broke 270 first to lock the victory
Supporters celebrate enthusiastically for Obama's win in the US election
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA on August 4, 1961. His father was a student from Kenya and his mother was a white person from Kansas. They met while studying at the University of Hawaii. Because his father went to Harvard University for further studies later, Obama was raised by his mother since childhood. When he was more than two years old, his parents' marriage broke down. At the age of six, Obama moved to Indonesia with his mother and stepfather.
Four years later, Obama returned to Hawaii. After graduating from high school, he entered Occidental College in California and then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983. In 1985, Obama came to Chicago to do community work. In 1988, he went to Harvard Law School for further studies and became the first African-American editor-in-chief of the school journal "Harvard Law Review". In 1991, after obtaining a doctorate in law from Harvard University, he returned to Chicago to become a lawyer and taught the constitution at the University of Chicago Law School.