Barack+Obama

A brief summary of Barack Obama: Barack Obama, Junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, is the first African –American to become the presumptive presidential candidate for a major political party in the United States. He just celebrated his 47th birthday on August 4th. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii of his father, Barack Obama Sr. and mother, Ann Dunham. His parents met at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where they both studied. His father is a native of Kenya, while his mother is from Kansas. His parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Following the divorce Barack did not see much of his father, who went to Harvard for a PhD, then returned to Kenya. Barack Obama, Sr. passed away in 1982 after visiting with his son only once in his life. Barack, known as “Berry” throughout his younger years, moved around some after his parents divorced; these moves including Jakarta, when Barack was six, where his mother remarried and his half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, was born. When Barack was ten, he moved back to his home town of Honolulu to be with his grandparents, and was soon joined by his mother. After high school in Hawaii, Barack attended Occidental College for two years, prior to transferring to Columbia University in New York. He graduated from Columbia in 1983 with a degree in political science. He continued his schooling at Harvard Law and became the first African –American editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. Although he was raised in a non-religious household, once he was older, Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ of his own accord. Barack has dedicated much of his life to civil-right law practice. He also taught for some time at the University of Chicago Law School. In 2004 he was elected as the Illinois representative in the U.S. Senate, and earned his attention on a national level by “giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic Nation Convention in Boston.” ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1682433/bio ) Just earlier this year he sought and gained the U.S. Democratic nomination for Presidency.

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