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- Occidental College1979 - 1981
- Columbia University1981 - 1983
- Columbia University
- King College Prep
- Centaurus High School
- State Elementary School Menteng 011970 - 1971
- Harvard Law School1988 - 1991
- University of Chicago Law School1997 - 2002
- Harvard University1988 - 1991
- Noelani Elementary School1966 - 1967
- Punahou School1971 - 1979
- Nelson High School
- Occidental College
Nov 9, 2009 · Obama was born in Hawaii, studied at Columbia and Harvard, and served in the Senate as a Democrat from 2005-2008. In 2008, Obama defeated Republican challenger John McCain to capture the...
3 days ago · Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (2005–08).
In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979. As a young adult, Obama moved to the contiguous United States, where he was educated at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.
- Obama’s Parents. Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. grew up herding goats in Africa and eventually earned a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of going to college in Hawaii.
- Life in Hawaii. While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled in the esteemed Punahou School. He excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979.
- Obama’s Half-Siblings. Obama’s family includes six half-siblings located around the world. He shares a mother with half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and has five paternal half-siblings.
- Illinois Senator. Encouraged by poll numbers, Obama decided to run for the open U.S. Senate seat, vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. In the 2004 Democratic primary, he defeated multimillionaire businessman Blair Hull and Illinois Comptroller Daniel Hynes with 52 percent of the vote.
Concerned for his education, Obama’s mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, and to attend Hawaii’s prestigious Punahou School from fifth grade through graduation from high school.
Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years.
Oct 14, 2010 · As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to change Washington. Two years in, he may have to change his approach to his job.
