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Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born on August 4,1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr. was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Obama’s mother, Ann. Dunham, a white American woman, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Obama’s parents separated when he was two years of age and later they got divorced. Obama’s father returned to Kenya and he saw his American born son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in the year 1982. Obama’s mother married to Lolo Soetoro and the family moved to Soetoro’s home country of Indonnesia in 1967. Obama attended a local school in Jakarta until he was ten years of age. Four years later when Obama was ten years old, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. Obama’s mother also returned to Hawaii in 1972. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

After completing high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for a period of two years. He then got transferred to Columbia University in New York City where he majored in political science. He specialized in international relations. While attending the Columbia University, he came across New York’s racial tension in escapable. This is where Obama first becme conscious of racism and he became aware of what it meant to be an African-American. Later he then attended HarvardLaw School and in 1990, he was elected the first African – American President of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. After law school, Obamq returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and joined the firm of Miner, Barnhill and Galland. He even taught at the University of Chicago Law School.

In the year 2000, Obama lost a Democratic primary run for the US. House of representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one. Obama was considered to be an early opponent of President George W. Bush’s push to war with Iraq. Obama was yet a state senator at that time when he spoke against a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq during a rally at Chicago’s Federal Plaza in October 2002. In the year 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois and managed to gain national attention by giving a rousing and well received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In January 4, 2005, Obama was sworn in as a senator. He then recruited a team of established, high-level advisers devoted to broad themes that exceeded the usual requirements of an incoming first term senator. Obama hired Pete Rouse, 1 30 year old Veteran of national politics as his chief of staff. He also hired former chief of staff to Senate Democratic Leader, Tom Daschle, as his chief of staff too. Also, he hired an economist named Karen Kornblush who was a former deputy chief of staff to secretary of the Treasury Rubert Rubin, to be his policy director. Samantha Power, an author on human rights and genocide and also former Clinton administration officials, Anthony Lake and Susan Rice were all hired as policy advisers. According to the Senate historian list, Obama is considered to be the fifth African American Senator in U.S history and the third for having been popularly elected . In 2008 Obama sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. While speaking at a Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting, one week before the February announcement, Obama called for putting an end to negative campaigning. During his presidential campaign, Obama had emphasized ending the war in a provision of universal health care as his top three priorities. He is now the president of the United States.

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