Barack Obama's Life

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama Sr. was born in Kenya and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas. His parents met and married when they were students at the University of Hawaii. Their marriage ended two years later and his mother remarried before the Obamas moved to Jakarta, Indonesia. He attended school in Indonesia until he was ten in 1971. He moved back to Hawaii where he lived with his maternal grandparents where he enrolled in Punahou Academy. After graduated from high school in 1979 and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles and transferred in Columbia University. He graduated in 1983. He moved to Chicago, Illinois to work as a community organizer in the Roseland community and in public housing on the South Side. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts to attend Harvard Law School and he graduated in with honors in 1991. The next year in 1992 he married Michelle Robinson and their two daughters are named Malia and Sasha Obama. Obama returned to Illinois to work as a civil rights lawyer and he taught at the University of Chicago. In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois State Senate representing the Southside and Hyde Park where FDR was born. Eight years later, he became the third African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate. In 2007 he announced his candidacy for President of the United States. On November 4, 2008 he won against Senator of Arizona John McCain and became the first African-American to be elected President. Note: Obama became President on January 20, 2009 and the Vice President is Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden.