He was born on August 4, 1961 in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. Son of Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan economist; and Stanley Ann Dunham, an American anthropologist, who met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a student foreing. When he was two years old, his parents after the divorce. His father returned to Kenya in 1971 and met for the last time with his son, before dying in a car accident in 1982. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, and in 1967 moved with his family to Indonesia, the country of origin its new training and career husband . Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten. He then returned to live in Honolulu with his maternal grandparents and in 1971 he was enrolled in the fifth grade of the Punahou School school, where he remained until his graduation from high school in 1979. His mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 and remained there for several years until in 1977 he traveled back to Indonesia for her fieldwork. In 1995, Ann died of cancer ovary. During the civil forum for the presidency at the church Saddleback Church, Obama admitted having used marijuana, cocaine and alcohol in his adolescence. Obama speaking at a rally in Conway, South Carolina, on 23 August 2007. Once completed his high school, he moved to the Angeles and began his studies at Western College Institute for a period of two years. Later, he was transferred to the University of Columbia in New York City in the race of Political Science, specializing in Foreign. international graduated with academic undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts from Columbia in 1983, and then began working in the company Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group. After working for four years in New York he moved to Chicago, where he was an active community organizer and project manager Developing Communities Project (DCP), a religious organization that originally had eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman and Riverdale) on the south side of town called South Side, from June 1985 to May 1988.29 28 In his role as director of the DCP, increased the number of staff each thirteen, the annual budget grew from 70,000 to 400,000 US dollars, and its accomplishments is also the help provided to establish a job training program, a preparatory tutoring for college and an organization for rights Altgeld tenants Gardens. Similarly, worked as a consultant and instructor for Gameliel Foundation, which is organizing institute communities. In mid-1988, first traveled to Europe for three weeks, then he went to Kenya for five weeks and met his close relatives by his father. In late 1988, he joined the School of Law Harvard Law School and in his first year as a student was selected as editor of the Harvard Law Review, due to their qualifications and contest escritura. In his second year of college, he was elected president of that publication, and served as full-time volunteer, exercising the duties of publicherr, and supervising staff comprised of 80 editors. The fact that it has been selected in February 1990 as the first black president of supplemental laws, was widely picked up by the media and was conducted detailed reviews biographical. During periods of summer, back to Chicago where he worked as an associate of the law firm Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. In 1991 he returned to Chicago after graduating from Harvard with a doctorate degree in Jurisprudence or Juris Doctor (JD) and the great honors cum laude. The publicity gained by the fact of being the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, helped me to get a contract with a publishing company, which granted an advance to undertake the drafting of a book about relationships racial. In an effort to recruit him as a professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chicago, he was offered a fellowship and an office to carry work in his book. I had originally planned to conclude the writing of his work in a year, but it took longer as it evolved into a collection of his personal memoirs. However, in order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he devoted himself for several months only to write his book. In mid-1995, the manuscript was finally published as Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (English Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance) .29 From April to October 1992, he addressed the non-profit called Project Vote, which was formed by a staff of ten and seven hundred volunteers workers organization, and through this project achieved the goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state of Illinois. His work on this project earned him being named in the weekly Crain Chicago Business in its list of 1993, as future promise among the 40 under forty. For a period of twelve (1992-2004 ) taught constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, University of Chicago; the first four years worked as a professor and later a Senior Lecturer .44 In 1993 joined the law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a firm composed of twelve lawyers specializing in civil rights and urban economic development. He served as a partner for the first three years (1993-1996), then as an attorney advisor in the period 1996 to 2004, and his license to practice law degree was inactive in 2002. Obama was a founding member of the board the organization of youth leadership development called Public Allies in 1992, but resigned from this post shortly before his wife Michelle was promoted as Executive Director of the same company. In early 1993, he was a member of the board of directors philanthropic organization Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation that funded the DCP project during the years 1993 to 2002. It also served on the board of the charitable foundation Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002. member of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge foundation, serving as founding president of the board was also. He was also a board member of the following institutions: the Committee of Chicago law in benefit of civil rights under the law (Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law), the Center neighborhood technology, and finally the foundation Lugenia Burns Hope Center
Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989, when he was hired as a summer associate at the law firm Sidley Austin. Robinson was assigned for three months as his counselor in the law firm, and shared some social meetings with Obama, but she initially refused his proposals to start an affair. However, in late summer both began a courtship, they got engaged in 1991 and married on October 3, 1992. The couple's first daughter was born in 1998 and gave it the name Malia Ann. In 2001 she gave birth to her second daughter, Natasha. Using the proceeds from the sale of one of his books, the family moved in 2005 from his apartment, located in the neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago, his current residence, located in the neighborhood of Kenwood and valued at $ 1.6 billion . The purchase of adjacent land by the wife of developer and friend Tony Rezko family, and the sale of part of the property to Obama, attracted the attention of the media because of the indictment and subsequent conviction on charges Rezko corruption policy. In December 2007, Money magazine estimated the net worth of the Obamas at 1.3 million. The 2007 tax return revealed family income of $ 4.2 million also in 2006 revenues were more than $ 1 million and 1.6 million in 2005, which came mostly from the sale of his books. In an interview in 2006 he highlighted the diversity of his extended family, and said "Michelle could tell you that when we come together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like the United Nations small. I have relatives that look like Bernie Mac, and I also have relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher. " Obama has seven half brothers of Kenyan origin by his father, of whom six are alive. It also has a sister by the hand of his mother and her second husband, from Indonesia, called Maya Soetoro-Ng. Soetoro-Ng is married to a Chinese Canadian. Since his school years, Obama speaks fluent Indonesian language level conversation.Also interested in the Spanish language and daughters are learning. Meanwhile, his grandmother Madelyn Dunham, originally from Kansas, he survived his mother until her death on November 2, 2008, just before the presidential election. In the autobiographical book entitled Dreams from My Father, he linked his family history on the maternal side to possible ties with Native American ancestors, and established the possibility of being a distant relative of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War. One of his hobbies is basketball, being the last member of his high school team in that sport. Before he announced his presidential candidacy, he began a highly publicized campaign to stop smoking. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune said: "I have given up periodically in recent years. I have a strict request from my wife which states that in the stressful moments of the campaign will not succumb. " In his book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream), explained that "it was not raised in a religious home." He described his mother was raised by non-religious parents, and specified that were non-practicing Methodists and Baptists apart from religion; However, he said that his mother was "in many ways the most spiritually aware person who has known." In turn, he said that his Kenyan father was raised in the Islamic faith, but "confirmed to be an atheist" when he met his mother, and said that his Indonesian stepfather was a man "who saw religion as particularly useless" . Barack in the book also said that through her work as a community organizer when I was about twenty years old and collaboration with minority churches black, failed to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change ", showing to be respectful of the Christian religions.
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