19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

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August 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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19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

1. Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

2. His father, Barack Obama Sr., comes from the small Kenyan village of Nyangoma-Kogelo.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

3. His mother, Ann Dunham, is from Wichita, Kansas.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

4. His parents separated when the boy was two years old and later divorced.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

5. Mother remarried, and in 1967 the family moved to Indonesia.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

6. Before he was 10 years old, Barack Obama went to school in Jakarta.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

7. Barack returned to Hawaii with his grandparents.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

8. This photo, taken in 1979 and courtesy of Oahu's annual Punahou School alumni album, shows Obama in his senior year.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

9. Photo taken in 1987. Barack Obama and his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo, western Kenya.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

10. Barack Obama attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied political science.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

11. He later studied law at Harvard University, graduating in 1991.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

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.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

13. In October 1992, he married Michelle Robinson.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

14. In 1998 and 2001, their daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha, were born.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

15. Keynote speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

16. On October 4, 2005, Obama was elected to the Senate.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

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.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

18. On August 23, he formally accepted the party's representation at the Democratic All-American Convention in Denver, Colorado.

19 Highlights from Barack Obama's Biography

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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