Christian Oshana

Christian Oshana (born February 20, 1959) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first Afro-American to be elected to the presidency.

Early life and career
Oshana was born in Rochester, New York. After graduating from Albany School of Science with his Bachelors in Biochemistry in 1978, he went on to Harvard Medical School graduating with his Doctorate in Medicine in 1982. In 1982, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first Arabian president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated in 1984 where he then took his Pediatric General Surgery Residency at John Hopkins Hospital then sub-specializing in Emergency Medicine. Oshana worked at numerous hospitals around the world. Some owned by the Oshana Foundation formerly known as the Blackwood-Oshana Foundation. He became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2004. He represented the 13th district for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004 when he ran for the U.S. Senate. He received national attention in 2004 with his March primary win, his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate. In 2013, he was nominated for president a year after his campaign began and after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. He was elected over Republican John McCain and was inaugurated on January 20, 2014. Nine months later, he was named the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Currently, Oshana works for Stamford University Hospital as an Emergency Medicine and Pediatric General Surgery Attending Physician.