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Barack Obama's biography

BARACK OBAMA

President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. He is biracial. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a black man from Kenya, and his mother Ann Dunham, a white woman, had grown up in Kansas. When he was ten years old he went to live with his grandparents. After graduating from high school he attended college in Los Angeles and then graduated from Columbia University in New York. Next he attended law school at Harvard and became a civil rights lawyer. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School. In 1992 he married Michelle Robinson, a young woman who had been his adviser when he started working at the Chicago law firm. In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois State Senate, and eight years later he was elected to the United States Senate. In 2007 he announced he would run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.On election day November 4, 2008 an early victory was achieved and Barack Obama became the first African American to ever be elected to the highest office in the land, the presidency. 

Reference: This biography by Patsy Stevens, a retired teacher, was written in 2008.

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