Barack obama senior biography
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Barack Obama: Life Before the Presidency
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, , in Hawaii. His parents, who met as students at the University of Hawaii, were Ann Dunham, a white American from Kansas, and Barack Obama Sr., a black Kenyan studying in the United States. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. “I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child,” Obama later recalled. “And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me.”
Concerned for his education, Obama’s mother sent him back to Hawaii to
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President Barack Obama
Personal
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he was raised by his mother, Ann, and maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. His motherlater married Lolo Soetoro, and his sister Maya was born in (He also has several siblings on his father’s side.)
Obama moved with his family to Indonesia in , where he attended local Indonesian schools and received additional lessons via U.S. correspondence courses under his mother’s direction.
He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in and attended Punahou School, from which he graduated in Obama first attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in
After graduation, Obama briefly worked as an analyst at Business International Corporation in New York City,
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Barack Obama Sr.
Kenyan economist; father of Barack Obama (–)
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (;[9][10] born Baraka Obama, 18 June [2][3] – 24 November ) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44thpresident of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (). Obama married in and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later.[11] Obama then went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an M.A. in economics, and returned to Kenya in He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about
In late , Obama Sr. married Ruth Beatrice Baker, a Jewish-American woman he had met in Massachus