Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Kenyan father named Barack Obama Sr. and American mother named Ann Dunham. He spent parts of his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii, and attended Occidental College and Columbia University before receiving his law degree from Harvard. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and went on to become the first African American president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017.

1. Barack Hussein ObamaBarack Hussein Obama, Jr., Jr.

2. Early LifeEarly Life
Barack Obama, Sr. –
Luo ethnicity, Kenya
Ann Dunham - Kansas
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Marriage
Barack Hussain Obama, Jr.
Aug., 4 1961 – Honolulu,
Hawaii
Ann + Lolo Soetoro
Barack Obama, Sr.

3. Early LifeEarly Life
 The family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia (1967)The family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia (1967)
 Obama’s half-sister MObama’s half-sister Maaya was bornya was born
 Barack attended catholic school, later public schoolBarack attended catholic school, later public school
 Came back to Hawaii where he lived with hisCame back to Hawaii where he lived with his
maternal grandparentsmaternal grandparents
 Finished Punahou SchoolFinished Punahou School
 Mother came back to Hawaii after divorceMother came back to Hawaii after divorce

5. Education and workEducation and work
 Occidental College, Los AngelesOccidental College, Los Angeles
 Columbia University, New York (political science)Columbia University, New York (political science)
 New York - work in a financial corporationNew York - work in a financial corporation
 Chicago - community organizer for a small ChicagoChicago - community organizer for a small Chicago
church-based groupchurch-based group
 Harvard Law School (first African-American editorHarvard Law School (first African-American editor
of the Harvard Law Review); graduated in 1991of the Harvard Law Review); graduated in 1991
 Chicago - civil rights lawyer; teacher at theChicago - civil rights lawyer; teacher at the
University of Chicago Law SchoolUniversity of Chicago Law School
 1995 - Dreams From My Father1995 - Dreams From My Father
 2004 - elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat,2004 - elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat,
representing Illinoisrepresenting Illinois

6. FamilyFamily
 Obama met his wife, Michelle, in 1989 when
he was a summer associate at the Chicago law firm
 They got married in October 1992 and live
in Kenwood on Chicago's South Side with their
daughters, Malia (born 1999) and Natasha (born
2001).