3. In full : Barack Hussein Obama || (age : 51)
Born : Aug. 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Race : African-American
Parents : S. Ann Dunham, Barack Obama Sr.
Wife : Michelle Obama
Childrens : Natasha Obama & Malia Ann
Obama
4. 44th president of the U.S.A (2009-present)
He is the first African-American to hold the
Office of U.S president.
Before winning the presidency, Obama
represented Illinois in the U.S Senate(’05-
’08)
5. In 2009 he was awarded the Nobel peace
prize “for his extraordinary efforts to
strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples.”
He was the third African-American to be
elected to that body since the end of
reconstruction. (1877)
6. Obama’s father Barack Obama, Sr., was a
senior economist in the Kenyan govt.
Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham and her
family settled in Honolulu.
In 1961, they met in a Russian lang. class
at the University of Hawaii and married
less than a year later.
In 1964, when Obama was 2, Ann and
Barack Sr. divorced.
