Barack Obama

Right-to-left: Barack Obama and half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, with their mother Ann Dunham and grandfather Stanley Dunham, in Hawaii (early 1970s)

Born on August 4, 1961 Barack Obama Jr. was born to Ann Dunham (White American) and Barack Obama, Sr. (Black Kenyan). Barack Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.After the divorce between Ann and Barack Sr., Barack his mother, and his mother's new husband moved to Indonesia. There Obama went to the schools in his area such as Asisi, in Jakarta until he was ten years old. Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Barack was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Barack Obama also worked as a community organizer and was a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama was also the junior Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008.