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• Barack Obama Biography

  (1961-)
• Barack Obama Biography

  (1961-)
• QUICK FACTS
• Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)
• Lives in: Chicago, Illinois
• Zodiac Sign: Leo
• Height: 6' 1" (1.87m)
• Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)
• Religion: United Church of Christ
• Education:
• - Graduated: Columbia University (1983) - Major: Political Science
• - Law Degree from Harvard (1991) - Major: J.D. - Magna Cum Laude
• - Attended: Occidental College
• Career: U.S. Senator from Illinois sworn in January 4, 2005
• Government Committees:
• - Foreign Relations Committee
• Books:
• - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)
• - Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)
• Barack Obama is the junior U.S. Senator from

  Illinois

  and a Democratic candidate for president in 2008.
• His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in

  Nyanza Province

  ,

  Kenya

  . 
• Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in

  Honolulu

  ,

  Hawaii

  .
• He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. 
• Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.
• Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in

  Wichita

  ,

  Kansas

  .
• Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. 
• After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across

  Europe

  in Patton's army.
• After the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to

  Hawaii

  .
• Dunham's mother went to work on a bomber assembly line.