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Barack Obama Biography
Born: Aug. 4, 1961
Birthplace: Hawaii
Parents: Barack Obama Sr., a native of Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a native of Kansas. They met at the University of Hawaii.
Wife: Michele
Children: Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7
Education: Graduate of Columbia University, 1983, and Harvard Law School, 1991
Obama, who was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia and lived in New York City during his undergraduate years, moved to Chicago in 1985 to work as a community organizer in poor neighborhoods.
Aspiring to have a greater impact, he enrolled at Harvard, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama then returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law.
He was elected to the Illinois senate in 1996 and in 2004 became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate. He began his rise to national prominence with the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, “The Audacity of Hope.”
SOURCE: www.barackobama.com
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