History
Barack Hussein Obama was born August 4th 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children. His mother was Ann Dunham, a white american women from Wichita, Kansas. His father was Barack Obama, Sr. an African American from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya.
His parents met in 1960 while attending the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student. The couple married on February 2, 1961, but were separated when Obama was only two years old. Obama’s father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.
Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University as well as Harvard Law School. At Harvard he became the first African American president of Harvard Law Review. Mr. Obama was a community organizer and civil rights attorney in the great city of Chicago before he was elected to the Senate in Illinois in 1997. Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.
On February 10, 2007, Barack Hussein Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. After a long and grueling campaign against Senator John McCain, on November 4th 2008 he was elected to become the 44th President of The United States. His historic term as the first African American President is set to begin on January 20, 2009. The rest as they say is history… 