me myself and i think that obama was probaly 44 yrs old
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President Obama was47 when he was elected president
In November 2007 when he was elected by the popular vote, and in January 2008 when he was elected by the electoral college, Barack Hussein Obama II was 47 years old, because he was born on August 4th, 1961.
Mr. Obama was born in 1961, and in 2012 he celebrated his 51st birthday.
First, President Obama is not really new-- he was first elected in 2008, and then re-elected in 2012. He was born in Hawaii in early August 1961, so at the time of his inauguration for the second term, he was 51 years old.
The first of President Obama's daughters was born on July 4, 1998 making her ten years old on November 4, 2008 when President Obama was elected. His second daughter was born on June 10, 2001 making her seven years old on election day.
If you are asking whether any other president was elected at age 47, yes there was one other-- Grover Cleveland. If you are asking whether Mr. Obama was the youngest president elected, he was not. Both Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were elected when they were 43.
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 and was elected in November 2008. Therefore Barack Obama was 47 years of age when he was elected President. He is the first African American person to hold this office.
In the 2008 election he was 47 but in the 2012 election he was 51
Martin Van Buren was 54 years old when he was elected the 8th president of the United States.
Barack Obama was 47 years of age when first elected President and at the time of his first inauguration, making him the fifth-youngest U. S. President (after T. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton and Grant).
# Theodore Roosevelt (Youngest President 42 years old when he took office after President McKinley was assassinated) # John F. Kennedy (Youngest Elected President, took office when he was 43) # Bill Clinton (46 years old) Barack Obama was 47 years old when he became President.
Barack Obama was 43 years old when he was first elected to the Senate in 2004.