2. • Barack Hussein Obama
• He was born in August
4th 1961.
• He was born in the
Kapi'olani medical
centre for woman and
children.
• Barack was born in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
3. Barack Obama married Michelle
Robinson in October 1992.
Barack and Michelle Obama
were married at Trinity Church
in Chicago. They have two
children Malia Ann Obama,
born 1999; Natasha Obama
(known as Sasha), born 2001.
4. Barack Obama‘s was Ann Dunham, who
passed away in 1999, and his father was
Barack Obama, Sr., who passed away in
1982.
His mother was an anthropologist and his
father was a government economist in
Kenya .
When Obama was two years old, his
parents divorced. His father eventually
returned to Kenya, and he saw his son only
once more before his death in 1982. Ann
Obama then married his stepfather, Lolo,
another East-West Centre student from
Indonesia.
5. Obama has a complicated familyHe has eight half-siblings -- seven of them living -- by four
other marriages or relationships of his parents.
His father, Barack Obama Sr., had four children by a
woman he married in Kenya before his 1960 marriage to
Obama's mother. Two of those children -- son (Roy) and
daughter Auma ,were born before Barack Obama Jr.
After Obama Sr. divorced Obama's mother in 1963, he
married another American woman he brought to Kenya and
had two more sons -- Mark and David, who was killed in a
motorcycle accident. That marriage ended in a divorce, after
Obama Sr. resumed his relationship with his first wife. The
elder Obama had two other sons -- Abo and Bernard -- by
his first wife, though Obama wrote in his memoirs that there
is some question whether another man actually fathered
Bernard.
Obama Sr. later had another son, George, by another
woman that he apparently did not marry.
As for Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, she had a daughter,
Maya Soetoro-Ng, from a second marriage to a man called
Lolo.
6. After graduating high school from
Punahou School in Hawaii, Barack
Obama attended Occidental College for
two years, then got his B.A. from
Columbia University. He later got his
law degree from Harvard Law School
(where he became the Harvard Law
Review's first black president),
graduating magna cum laude. Obama
was also a lecturer of constitutional law
at the University of Chicago Law
School. Then he ran for president in
2006
7. Before he became a president ;Barack
Obama's occupation was being a law
teacher at the Chicago law of university.
As a member of the United States Senate,
he is presently a full-time lawmaker. Before
that he was an attorney practicing civil
rights law and also teaching constitutional
law at the University of Chicago Law
School.
8. Barack Obama is significant in
history because he is the 44th
and the first African-American
president in the united states
of America. On Tuesday the
20th of January 2009 Barack
obama became the first
African-American president as
he has given the oath of office;
this was witnessed by millions
of people across the world.
Here is a little clip to show you
Obama taking the oath of
office.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7
840564.stm
