19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/19-highlights-from-barack-obama39s-biography.htmlAugust 4 celebrates his birthday Barack Obama - the first black president of the United States, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2009 and an outstanding person in every way. In our selection - the main moments of his biography in the photo.
Barack Hussein Obama II is the current (since January 20, 2009) 44th President of the United States of America. Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2009. Before being elected president, he was a U.S. Senator from Illinois. First African American to be nominated for President of the United States by one of the two major parties; unlike most black Americans, Obama is not a descendant of slaves, but the son of a student from Kenya.
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1. Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2. His father, Barack Obama Sr., comes from the small Kenyan village of Nyangoma-Kogelo.
3. His mother, Ann Dunham, is from Wichita, Kansas.
4. His parents separated when the boy was two years old and later divorced.
5. Mother remarried, and in 1967 the family moved to Indonesia.
6. Before he was 10 years old, Barack Obama went to school in Jakarta.
7. Barack returned to Hawaii with his grandparents.
8. This photo, taken in 1979 and courtesy of Oahu's annual Punahou School alumni album, shows Obama in his senior year.
9. Photo taken in 1987. Barack Obama and his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo, western Kenya.
10. Barack Obama attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied political science.
11. He later studied law at Harvard University, graduating in 1991.
12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago, where he began working for a small law firm, registering voters and lecturing on constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
13. In October 1992, he married Michelle Robinson.
14. In 1998 and 2001, their daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha, were born.
15. Keynote speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
16. On October 4, 2005, Obama was elected to the Senate.
17. In February 2007, he announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. After a long standoff with Hillary Clinton, in June 2008 Obama became the candidate of the US Democratic Party.
18. On August 23, he formally accepted the party's representation at the Democratic All-American Convention in Denver, Colorado.
19. On January 20, 2009, during the inauguration ceremony, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.
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