Difference between revisions of "Barack Hussein Obama"
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| − | Barack Obama is a Democratic Senator from Illinois, elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after serving as a state Senator. He is a candidate and | + | Barack Obama is a Democratic Senator from Illinois, elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after serving as a state Senator. He is a candidate and Democratic front-runner for the 2008 United States Presidential election. |
== Personal Life == | == Personal Life == | ||
| − | Obama was born in Hawaii August 4 1961 | + | Obama was born in Hawaii August 4 1961. His father was a Kenyan former farmer, and his mother a US citizen from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was two, and Obama's mother remarried to an Indonesian man and relocated the family to Jakarta. From age ten he lived in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents, where he completed high school in 1979. Obama has a Law degree from Harvard University and a BA from Columbia University. Until he entered politics in the 1990's, he was a senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He is currently a recovering smoker, having made a promise to quit to his wife, who clearly has him whipped. |
Revision as of 01:19, March 14, 2007
Barack Obama is a Democratic Senator from Illinois, elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after serving as a state Senator. He is a candidate and Democratic front-runner for the 2008 United States Presidential election.
Personal Life
Obama was born in Hawaii August 4 1961. His father was a Kenyan former farmer, and his mother a US citizen from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was two, and Obama's mother remarried to an Indonesian man and relocated the family to Jakarta. From age ten he lived in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents, where he completed high school in 1979. Obama has a Law degree from Harvard University and a BA from Columbia University. Until he entered politics in the 1990's, he was a senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He is currently a recovering smoker, having made a promise to quit to his wife, who clearly has him whipped.