Barack Obama

Barack Mussein Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His father was a black Kenyan man named Barack Obama Sr. and his mother was a white woman named Ann Dunham. Unfortunately his father died in a car accident in 1980, and his mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995 while being raised by his mother who became a single parent. The schools he attended where he attended were a Occidental College in Los Angeles, Harvard Law School, and the prejudice Columbia University in New York. Obama graduated from a Punahou school in Honolulu in his teen years that was also a prejudiced school, and earned a undergraduate degree in political Science. He then Michelle Robinson in 1992 with two daugthers named Sasha and Malia.



In 1990 Barack was elected President of the Harvard Law Review journal as the first African American to serve in the post. Obama started helping people as a community orginizer in Harlem, and worked on the local voter registration drive. He then went to Chicago where he was being more helpful by his Church-based services orginization, and teaching classes at the University of Chicago Law School. Before going into his professional career as a politican he worked at a summer job as a summer associate at the Chicago Firm, and then became a politican for the democratic party. In 2004 he was in the race for the Senate of Illiniois and won, so now he's running for President of the United States, and if he wins he will become the first black President Of the United States of America.