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BetaPresident-elect of the United States
Occurred: 11/03/2008
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain and became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.[117][118][119][120] In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Grant Park in Chicago, Obama proclaimed that "change has come to America."[121] Born in Hawaii, Obama will be the first U.S. President born outside the contiguous United States. He also will be fifth youngest President at a date of accession, and the first since Lincoln whose primary political base is Illinois. President-elect Obama is scheduled to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009. His assigned Secret Service codename is "Renegade".
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