Barack Obama | |
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.jpg) Obama in c. 1998 | |
| Born | Barack Hussein Obama II August 4, 1961 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
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| Years active | 1979–present |
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii[1] to Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) (born in Oriang' Kogelo of Rachuonyo North District,[2] Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (1942–1995) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States).[3]
Obama spent most of his childhood years in Honolulu, where his mother attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Obama had a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In 1965, his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. Two years later, Dunham took Obama with her to Indonesia to reunite him with his stepfather. In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979.
As a young adult, Obama moved to the contiguous United States, where he was educated at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. In Chicago, Obama worked at various times as a community organizer, lawyer, lecturer and senior Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School in the city's South Side, and later published his memoir Dreams from My Father before beginning his political career in 1997 as a member of the Illinois Senate.
- ^ "Statement by Dr. Chiyome Fukino" (PDF). hawaii.gov. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 6, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2008. Joe Miller, "Does Obama have Kenyan Citizenship?" Archived December 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Fact Check, August 29, 2008, quoted in part on FightTheSmears Archived November 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Partial Ancestor Table: President Barack Hussein Obama, Jr" (PDF). New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2009.
- ^ Peters, Susan. "President Obama: From Kansas to the Capital". kake.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2009.