BARACK OBAMA

By TOSHIMA007

  • OBAMA'S BORN

    Barack Obama was born in August 4th 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. Raised largely in Hawaii.

  • CHILDHOOD

    Barack Obama spent most of his childhood years in Honolulu, where his mother completed college after his parents divorced. Obama started a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In 1965, his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. Two years later, Dunham took Obama with her to Indonesia to reunite him with his stepfather. In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979.

  • HIGH SCHOOL

    In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He attended Punahou School— a private college preparatory school— with the aid of a scholarship from fifth grade until he graduated from high school in 1979. In his youth, Obama went by the nickname "Barry"

  • COLLEGE

    He had turned 18 a few weeks earlier. The afro he started at Punahou School had grown a bit fuller, but was under control. He was Barry Obama, freshman, from Honolulu.
    It was autumn 1979 when Obama arrived at Occidental College, a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles. The campus was much like his school in Honolulu, with gentle slopes and flowering landscapes. Its academic expectations were equally high and the weather in southern California sunny.

  • WHEN OBAMA GOT MARRIED.

    The Wedding: On October 3, 1992, Michelle and Barack said "I do" at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The bride's brother walked her down the aisle, while the groom's brother served as best man. After the vows, a reception was held at the South Shore Cultural Center. Of course, self-professed Stevie Wonder super fan Michelle chose the singer's "You and I" for their first dance as husband and wife. After the wedding, the couple took off for a California-coast honeymoon.

  • OBAMA'S WIFE

    Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer and writer who was First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African American First Lady. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and spent her early legal career working at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her husband.

  • OBAMA'S FAMILY

    Malia Obama and Sasha Obama
    Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters: Malia Ann (/məˈliːə/), born July 4, 1998, and Natasha (known as Sasha /ˈsɑːʃə/), born on June 10, 2001. They were both delivered at University of Chicago Medical Center by their parents' friend and physician Anita Blanchard.[10] Sasha is the youngest child to reside in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. arrived as an infant in 1961.

  • 2008 Presidential Election

    In 2007, Obama made headlines when he announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. He was locked in a tight battle with former first lady and then-U.S. senator from NY Hillary Clinton. On 2008, He became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee after winning a sufficient # of pledged delegates during the primaries, and Clinton delivered her full support to Obama for the duration of his campaign. On 11/ 04/08, He defeated Republican presidential nominee John McCain,

  • POTUS / 44th President

    Barack Obama was the president of United State Of America from 2009 to 2017, he was the first Afro-American President of USA .
    Barack Obama, a member of the Democratic Party, took office as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009 at age 47. Obama served in office for 8 years and left at the end of his second term. He was born in Urban Honolulu, HI and received an education from Columbia University in the City of New York and Occidental College.

  • Death of Osama bin Laden/ U.S. presidential address

    President Obama recalled the victims of the September 11 attacks. He praised the nearly ten-year-old war against al-Qaeda, which he said had disrupted terrorist plots, strengthened homeland defenses, removed the Taliban government, and captured or killed scores of al-Qaeda operatives. Obama said that when he took office he made finding bin Laden the top priority of the war. Bin Laden's death was the most significant blow to al-Qaeda so far but the war would continue.