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Barack Obama Father

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Barack Obama is the 44 President of the United States, he is also the first ever African

American President of the United States. His outstanding story to success is very empower and

encouraging. Many people look up to the story of him overcoming the color of his skin and

accomplishing everything he put his mind to.

Barack Hussein Obama was born August 4,1961 to Ann Dunham and the late Barack Obama

Sr in Honolulu,HI. Barack Sr was a senior governmental economist for Kenya in which he

played a big role. Though Obama didn't see him much in his young life he still looked up to him.

He even wrote a memoir on the subject of his father called Dreams From My Father, explaining

his life in detail and the effect his father had on his life.

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Finally in 1970 Barack moved back to Hawaii. In the

middle of 1971 young Barack saw his father for the last time. Barack sr visited him for a month

before returning back to kenya. Honolulu is where the young Barack lived until his high school

graduation.

After his high school graduation Obama went to Occidental College in Los Angeles. Then he

later transferred to Columbia College/ Columbia University his junior year in New York City. He

majored in political science with a specialty in international relations. In 1983 Obama graduated

with a Ba then immediately found a job at the Business International Corporation. He worked

there for a year before leaving and getting a job at the New York Public Interest Research

Group. Five years later Obama entered Harvard to get a degree in law. During the summers he

would go to Chicago, there he worked as an associate at the law firms Sidley Austin. He later

graduated from Harvard in 1991 with a JD degree magna cum laude. He then moved to

Chicago,there he met Michelle Robinson. Robinson supervised all his work at the firm. They

eventually started dating and four long years later ther got married. The Obama’s got married

October

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