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Born in Honolulu, Hawaii
August 4, 1961
Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr., of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.
Honolulu, Hawaii
August 4, 1961 - August 4, 1964
Honolulu, Hawaii
Parents Divorced
August 4, 1963
They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.
Mother remarried
May 4, 1964
Dunham married Lolo Soetoro
Jakarta, Indonesia
August 4, 1964 - September 1, 1971
After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old.
Honolulu, Hawaii
September 1, 1971 - July 1, 1979
Obama moved back to Honolulu, Hawaii to stay with his mother's family. After high school, he moved to Los Angeles, California.
Punahou School
September 1, 1972 - June 1, 1979
Barack attend Punahou School from the 5th grade until his high school graduation. Punahou is a K - 12th school.
Occidental College
September 1, 1979 - June 1, 1981
Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.
Columbia University
September 1, 1981 - June 1, 1983
Barack transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.
Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983.
Michelle Robinson
July 1, 1988 - Now
Obama met his future wife, Michelle Robinson, in 1988 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin.[149] Assigned for three months as Obama's adviser at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial offers to date. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married in October 1992.
Harvard Law School
September 1, 1988 - June 1, 1991
He entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In 1990, The New York Times reported his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991.
Illinois Senate
July 1, 1995 - July 1, 1998
In July 1995, Obama announced plans to run for the Illinois Senate from Chicago's 13th District, representing areas of Chicago's South Side, including Hyde Park-Kenwood and South Shore. Obama's campaign raised legal challenges to the nominating petitions of incumbent Alice Palmer and the three other candidates, successfully removing their names from the ballot and allowing him to run unopposed in the primary, virtually handing him victory in the heavily-Democratic district. Once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws. He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare. Obama also led the passage of legislation mandating videotaping of homicide interrogations, and a law to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they stopped.
Illinois Senate
July 1, 1998 - July 1, 2002
2nd term as Illinois Senator
Illinois Senate
July 1, 2002 - November 1, 2004
3rd term as Illinois Senator
US Senator
January 4, 2005 - Now
The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history, the third to have been popularly elected, and the only African American currently serving in the Senate.
Campain for US presidency
Feburary 1, 2007 - Now
Run for US Presidency
Presidential Inauguration
January 20, 2009
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President, and Joe Biden as Vice President, took place on January 20, 2009. The theme of the inauguration was "A New Birth of Freedom," commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
