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Birth of Obama
School DaysChildhoodObama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital to Ann Dunham, from Wichita, Kansas. He attended kindergarten in 1966–1967 at Noelani Elementary School in Honolulu. In 1967, his mother married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was also attending the University of Hawaii, and the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where they remained until Obama was ten years old. Obama then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stan -
Early Career
After four years living in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer. He worked for three years from June 1983 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland on Chicago's far South Side. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute. In the summer of 1988, he traveled for the fir -
Graduation
He entered Harvard Law School in 1988 and graduated in 1991. While in law school he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989, where he met his wife, Michelle, and where Newton N. Minow was a managing partner. Minow later would introduce Obama to some of Chicago's top business leaders. In the summer of 1990 he worked at Hopkins & Sutter. Also during his law school years, Obama spent eight days in Los Angeles taking a national training course on Alinsky methods of organi -
Settling Down
MarriageHe married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992 and settled down with her in Hyde Park. The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998; their second, Natasha, in 2001. One effect of the marriage was to bring Obama closer to other politically influential Chicagoans. One of Michelle's best friends was Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita Jackson, later the godmother of the Obamas' first child. Michelle herself had worked as an aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley. Marty Nesbitt, a young, successful -
Lecturer in Chicago University
He joined law firm specializing in civil rights cases and
became a lecturer at University of Chicago law school. The publicity from his election as the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations. In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. He originally planned to finish the book in one year, but it took mu -
Entry into Politics
The Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama began in with the 1997 swearing in of Obama to his first term in the Illinois Senate and ended with his 2004 election to the United States Senate. During this part of his career, Obama continued teaching constitutional law part-time at the University of Chicago Law School as he had done as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996 and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996–2008. -
President of the USA
First Balck PresidentHe launched presidential campaign; raised a record $100 million in campaign contributions; "The Audacity of Hope" narration wins him a second Grammy in 2007. He won Iowa Democratic caucuses, and became the front-runner for the presidential nomination in 2008. He Locked up the Democratic presidential nomination and accepted the presidential nomination at Democratic National Convention. He became the 44th president of the United States. -
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Re-elected to a Second Term
Obama's Re-electionHe has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America's first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. Mr Obama prevailed despite lingering dissatisfaction with the economy and a hard-fought challenge by Mr Romney. Mr Obama's victory came despite lingering high unemployment - 7.9% on election day - and tepid economic growth. But voters gave him credit for his 2009 rescue of the US car industry among other poli -
Acknowledgements
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