Short Biography: President Barack Obama

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Biography: President Barack Obama
Born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, Barack Hussein Obama didn’t have a perfect or traditional childhood. He was raised by his mother, grandmother, and grandfather; his parents divorced before he was born, and his Kenyan father only visited him one time. Barack Obama also lived and attended school in Indonesia for a short time when his mother remarried an Indonesian man. Obama ultimately graduated from the prestigious Ponahou School, a college preparatory program, in 1979 in Hawaii. Although Obama’s family was not affluent, they valued education and this attitude motivated a young Barack Obama to attend prestigious universities in the continental United States. After a brief stint at Occidental College in California, Obama transferred to Columbia University and majored in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations. He graduated from Columbia in 1983 and later attended Harvard Law School, where he was elected the first AfricanAmerican President of the Harvard Law Review. His education would continue to influence Obama in his early career both as a community organizer in the South Side of Chicago and as a law instructor at the University of Chicago. Barack Obama also worked at a Chicago law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development from 1993