Barack Obama

Quick Facts

Full Name	Barack Obama
Occupation	Us President
Date Of Birth	Aug 4, 1961(1961-08-04)
Age	63
Birthplace	Honolulu
Country	United States
Birth City	Hawaii
Horoscope	Leo

Barack Obama Biography

Barack Obama is one of the most popular and richest US President who was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The 44th president of the United States who became the first African-American in the presidency. He was famous for the legislation he enacted to stimulate the economy and health reform.

He was defeated by Republican presidential candidate He defeated Republican candidate John McCain to win the presidency in 2008. to be elected president in 2008.

In late August 1961, a few weeks after he was born, Barack and his mother moved to the University of Washington in Seattle, where they lived for a year. During that time, the elder Obama completed his undergraduate degree in economics in Hawaii, graduating in June 1962. He left to attend graduate school on a scholarship at Harvard University, where he earned an M.A. in economics. Obama’s parents divorced in March 1964. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1964, where he married for a third time and worked for the Kenyan government as the Senior Economic Analyst in the Ministry of Finance. He visited his son in Hawaii only once, at Christmas 1971, before he was killed in an automobile accident in 1982, when Obama was 21 years old. Recalling his early childhood, Obama said, “That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind.” He described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.

Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii at 7:24 pm. He is the only president born outside the contiguous 48 states. He was born to an American mother of European descent and an African father. His mother, Ann Dunham (1942–1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas; she was mostly of English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. (In July 2012, Ancestry.com found a strong likelihood that Stanley Ann Dunham was descended from John Punch, an enslaved African man who lived in the Colony of Virginia during the seventeenth century.) His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), was a married Luo Kenyan from Nyang’oma Kogelo. Obama’s parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student on a scholarship. The couple married in Wailuku, Hawaii, on February 2, 1961, six months before Obama was born.

The mother of his son, His mother Ann Dunham was born in Kansas and his father Barack Obama Sr. was born in Kenya. They married in Hawaii in 1961 and separated later that year. He married Michelle Obama in October 1992. He and Michelle have two daughters, Malia and Sasha. was born in Kansas and his father Barack Obama Sr. was born in Kenya. They got married on the island of Hawaii in 1961 before splitting in 1992. He married Michelle Obama in October 1992. Michelle as well as Michelle share two daughters: Malia as well as Sasha.

Barack Obama Net Worth

Barack Obama is one of the richest Us President from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Barack Obama 's net worth $70 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was at Jakarta as a kid, and the language he learned was Indonesian and was exposed to snake, dog meat, and roasted grasshoppers. He was later a professor of constitutional law in Chicago’s University of Chicago from 1992 until 2004.

He was elected three times to 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He was a candidate in the United States House of Representatives in 2000 but was defeated. He was a senator from Illinois on the United States Senate from 2005 to 2008.

Obama’s family history, upbringing, and Ivy League education differ markedly from those of African-American politicians who launched their careers in the 1960s through participation in the civil rights movement. Expressing puzzlement over questions about whether he is “black enough,” Obama told an August 2007 meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists that “we’re still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong.” Obama acknowledged his youthful image in an October 2007 campaign speech, saying: “I wouldn’t be here if, time and again, the torch had not been passed to a new generation.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Barack Obama Dating?

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Obama lived with anthropologist Sheila Miyoshi Jager while he was a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s. He proposed to her twice, but both Jager and her parents turned him down. The relationship was not made public until May 2017, several months after his presidency had ended.

Facts & Trivia

Barack Ranked on the list of most popular US President. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Barack Obama celebrates birthday on August 4 of every year.

Obama met Trinity United Church of Christ pastor Jeremiah Wright in October 1987 and became a member of Trinity in 1992. During Obama’s first presidential campaign in May 2008, he resigned from Trinity after some of Wright’s statements were criticized. Since moving to Washington, D.C., in 2009, the Obama family has attended several Protestant churches, including Shiloh Baptist Church and St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, but the members of the family do not attend church on a regular basis.

What are 3 things that Obama did while he was president?

• Responding to the Great Recession. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. …
• Wall Street reform. Credit CARD Act of 2009. …
• Taxation and spending. Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. …
• 2013 debt ceiling crisis and government shutdown.

Why is Barack Obama famous for?

Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his first two years in office. The main reforms include: the Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as “the ACA” or “Obamacare”, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010.

What Law firm did Barack Obama work at?

In 1993 Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2007.

What president was in office in 2008?

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, he became the first African American to hold the office.

Why did Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize?

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama (b. 1961) for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.