<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> becomes the first person of biracial or <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American" id="mwARE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="African-American">African-American</a> descent to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" id="mwARI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2008 United States presidential election">elected</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>.