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John Noah Martins (born September 3, 1973) is the 45th and current President of the United States.

Martins was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His father, David Martins, was a firefighter of Puerto Rican Jewish heritage and his mother, Naomi Martins (née Soliman), was a social worker of Persian Jewish heritage. With two sisters and a brother, Martins is the oldest of four children. After he graduated from Northeast High School in 1991, he went on to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Martins graduated from the Naval Academy in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.

While at the Naval Academy, he decided to become an intelligence officer. Upon graduating from The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, Martins went on to the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. There, he attended the Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence Basic Course. Afterwards, Martins was assigned as a platoon commander to the 2nd Intelligence Battalion at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Eventually, he was elevated to the position of a company executive officer.

Martins left the Marine Corps after five years of distinguished service in 2000 at the rank of Captain. He then enrolled in the joint MBA/MPA Program at Harvard University. Shortly after earning both a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2002, Martins married the former Jane Benady; whom he'd been dating for nearly two years. He then returned to Kansas City with his wife and obtained a position as a management consulting associate at the local office of KPMG Consulting.

In late 2003, with his wife's encouragement, Martins decided to run for Congress. On November 2, 2004, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives by the voters of Missouri's 6th congressional district. Martins was re-elected in 2006. On January 28, 2008, he announced his candidacy for the governorship of Missouri. On November 4, 2008, Martins was elected 55th Governor of Missouri with 54.1% of the vote.

On July 5, 2011, he announced that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee. Martins officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency on August 15, 2011. On May 29, 2012, he secured the nominating threshold of 1,144 delegates to become the Republican Party's presumptive nominee with his victory in the Texas presidential primary. On August 15, 2012, he announced the selection of Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee as his vice-presidential running mate. On August 30, 2012, in Tampa, Florida, he formally accepted the Republican Party's nomination at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Martins was elected 45th president of the United States, beating incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama. He received 336 votes in the Electoral College and 52.3% in the popular vote. Martins was inaugurated on January 20, 2013 and officially sworn into the presidency by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts.