First Name
Barack
Last Name
Obama
Date of Birth
04 August 1961
Middle Name
Hussein
Height
73.25
Build
Slim
Eye Color
Brown - Dark
Hair Color
Black
Place of Birth
Honolulu, Hawaii
Star Sign
Leo
Ethnicity
Multiracial
Religion
Congregationalist
Claim to Fame
President of the United States of America (2009 -
Gender
Male
Nationality
American
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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his success in the 2008 presidential election.
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Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.
Barack’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton’s army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.
It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack’s parents met. His mother was a student, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.
Barack’s father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.
The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, he needed the skills that only a more professional education could offer.
He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for seven years.
In 2003, Barack launched his improbable race for the United States Senate. Even with many primary contenders, an imported Republican challenger and a budget six times smaller than his opponent’s, Barack won a landslide victory. Even then, he stood out alone among the major candidates, opposing the war in Iraq.
As a US Senator, Barack has continued to work on the issues that represent the ideals and aspirations of so many. He’s helped pass major measures that combat the international trafficking of nuclear weapons, promote the use of alternative fuels, and open up the budget process to greater public scrutiny. In all of these efforts, he’s brought Democrats and Republicans together for the common good.
Above all his accomplishments and experiences, Barack is most proud and grateful for his family. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 8, and Sasha, 5, live on Chicago’s South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.
High School
Punahou School
University
Occidental College (transferred out), Columbia University (Bachelors of Arts, 1983), Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1991)
Official Websites
www.barackobama.com/, www.barackobama.com/about/, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama, www.myspace.com/barackobama, www.whitehouse.gov/
Full Name at Birth
Barack Hussein Obama II
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Father
Barack Obama Sr
Mother
Ann Dunham
Sister
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Father
Lolo Soetoro (step father)
Family Member
Madelyn Dunham (grandmother)
Weight
175
Occupation Text
44th President of the United States
Distinctive Feature
large ears, wide smile, deliberate cadence, lanky body
Friend
David Axelrod (campaign manager) (2003-2008), Reggie Love (special assistant and personal aide, Reggie Love (body man), Warren Buffett (major supporter), Michael Jordan (major supporter), Beyonce Knowles (major supporter), Oprah Winfrey (major supporter), Jay-Z (major supporter), Scarlett Johansson (major supporter), Ted Kennedy (major supporter and mentor), Kal Penn (major supporter and ), Tom Hanks (major supporter), Hill Harper (Harvard classmate)
Associated People
Joe Biden (Runningmate/Vice President) [2008-, Rahm Emanuel (first chief of staff), John McCain (2008 Presidential opponent), Bill Clinton (fellow living Democratic President), Jimmy Carter (fellow living Democratic President)
Pets
Bo (Portuguese Water Dog) [2009-
Favorite People
Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Stewart, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Favorite Movies
Godfather Part I, Godfather Part II, Lawrence of Arabia
Favorite TV Shows
SportsCenter
Favorite Bands
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fugees
Favorite Songs
Ready or Not (Fugees) [1996], What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) [1971], I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen) [1985], Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones) [1969], Sinnerman (Nina Simone) [1965], Touch the Sky (Kanye West) [2006], You'd Be So Easy to Love (Frank Sinatra) [rec. 1961], Think (Aretha Franklin [1968], City of Blinding Lights (U2) [2004]
Favorite Books
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison), Moby Dick, Shakespeare's Tragedies, Parting the Waters, Gilead (Robinson), Self-Reliance (Emerson), The Bible, Lilcolns Collected Writings
Favorite Foods
Chili, Pizza, Pumpkin Pie
Friend
Will Smith (major supporter), Ron Howard (major supporter), Steven Spielberg (major supporter)
Favorite Places
Chicago, Illinois, Hawaii, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Age
50
Distinctive Feature
Great speaker
Family Member
Habiba Akumu Obama (grandmother), Hussein Onyango Obama (granfather)
Barack Obama onThe View
Obama on The View
President Obama onThe View
President Barack Obama's Visit to the "Tonight Show"
President Barack Obama's Visit to the "Tonight Show"
President Barack Obama's Visit to the "Tonight Show"
Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Banquet with The Obamas
Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Banquet with The Obamas
Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Banquet with The Obamas
Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Banquet with The Obamas
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