Barack Obama – President of USA

Barack Hussein Obama II nickname Barry born on August 4, 1961 is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States. Barack Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005, until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency. The first African American elected President, he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capital.

Barack Obama was born at the Kapi’olani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas. Obama’s father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. His parents met in 1960 while attending the University of Hawaii at M?noa, where his father was a foreign student. The couple married on February 2, 1961; they separated when Obama was two years old and divorced in 1964. Obama’s father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982. After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro. Barack then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham, while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979. his mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

In June 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson, who later became his wife, when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. Assigned for three months as Obama’s adviser at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial requests to date. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992. The couple’s first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha (“Sasha”), in 2001. Obama was known as “Barry” in his youth, but asked to be addressed with his given name during his college years.

In December 2007, Money magazine estimated the Obama family’s net worth at $ 1.3 million. Their 2007 tax return showed a household income of $ 4.2 million—up from about $ 1 million in 2006 and $ 1.6 million in 2005—mostly from sales of his books.

Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school’s varsity team. Obama is a Protestant Christian whose religious views have evolved in his adult life.

Besides his native English, Obama speaks Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), at least on a colloquial level, which he learned during his four childhood years in Jakarta.

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