US Prisident Barack Obama Biography

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Real Birth Name:

Barack Hussein Obama Junior.

Date of Birth:

4th August 1961. Honolulu, Hawaii ,USA.

Barack Obama's Height:

6' 1½".

Mother's Name:

Ann Dunham. White American (1942-1995).

Father's Name: Barack Obama Senior. Black Kenyan (1936-1982).

Step Father's Name:

Lolo Soetoro

Spouse's Name:

Michelle Obama. (January 17, 1964)

Daughter's Name:

Malia Obama (4th July 1999).

Daughter's Name:

Natasha also known as Sasha Obama (2001).

Barack Obama who is also known as Barack Hussain Obama Junior (Birth Name) or Barry (Nickname) was born on 4th July 1961 at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Obama’s father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya an was a senior governmental economist.

Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas.

Obama’s spouse, Michelle Robinson(Real Name) came from a working-class black family and grew up on the South Side. Barack Obama got married to Michelle Robinson on October 18, 1992

When Barack Obama was born, his parents were still students at the East–West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His father, Barack Sr., was the first-ever student from an African country and entered the University of Hawaii.

Barack Obama grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.

At the age of two, his parents divorced. And he saw his biological father only once in 1971 after the divorce.

Obama's mother remarried Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia who worked in the oil industry.

At the age of six, in 1967, The family moved and lived near the capital of Jakarta, where his half-sister Maya Soetoro–Ng was born. Obama attended schools in Jakarta, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language.

At the age of ten, Obama returned to Hawaii and lived with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. And later his mother and sister returned as well.

He was enrolled in the fifth grade at the Punahou Academy, Honolulu graduating with honors in 1979. He was only one of three black students at the school. This is where Obama first became conscious of racism and what it meant to be an African–American. He had even used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years.

He had even used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years.

Barack Obama began to explore his African roots and not long after his father's death traveled to meet his relatives in Kenya for the very first time.

He also became a community organizer in Harlem for a time being an then moved to Chicago to work for a church-based social-services organization. The group was active on the city's South Side, one of America's most impoverished urban communities. He later went on to Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. And midway through, he transferred to the Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. In 1990, Barack Obama became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He studied at the Harvard University and became a lawyer.

Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989 while he was doin his intern and Michelle Robinson an associate. They felt in love and got married on October 18, 1992His father died in a car accident in 24 November 1982. And his mother later died of ovarian cancer in 1995.In 1995, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance was published by Times Books. In 2000, Obama made his first bid for U.S. Congress.In 2005, Barack Obama was named as one of "100 most influential people in the world" and also in 2007 Barack Obama was chosen as one of "10 people would change the world" by New Statesman magazine. Barack Obama became the fifth African American senator in U.S. history and was also one of the youngest senator. In 2006, Barack Obama won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word for the CD version of his autobiography "Dreams From My Father”.

In 2008, Barack Obama won his second Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "The Audacity of Hope". Barack Obama got elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in 2004.He represented Illinois gaining nation wide attention, giving rouse and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In the year 2008, He contested for President as a Democrat and won.Barack Obama became the 27th lawyer to be elected American President and the first African - American President Elect ever of the United States of America.