- NAME – Barack Hussein Obama
Library of Congress - NICKNAME(S) – Barry
- BIRTH / DEATH – Aug. 4, 1961 Honolulu, Hawaii
- FATHER –
- MOTHER –
- COLLEGE – Occidental College, Columbia / Harvard Law School
- WIFE – Michelle Robinson
- KIDS – 2 daughters
- PETS – Portuguese water dog (Bo)
- RELIGION – United Church of Christ
- ANCESTRY –
- AGE – 47
FIRSTS:
– first African-American
– first to appoint a Hispanic-American to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor)
– first African-American to edit Harvard’s Law Review
BACKGROUND:
– his father was from Kenya, after the divorce, his mother married a man from Indonesia and moved there; when his mother died, he was raised by his grandparents in Hawaii
– after Harvard, became a lawyer
– community organizer
– 1996 – Illinois state senator
– 2004 – U.S. Senator
FIRST LADY: Barack married above himself. Michelle grew up in a middle-class family. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, but worked his way up in the Chicago Water Department. She graduated from Princeton and then Harvard Law. Her first job was as a lawyer at a big law firm. She was assigned an intern who was a freshman at Harvard Law. His name was Barack and he was attracted to her immediately. She was uncomfortable with them dating, but eventually he persevered. She left law and had various prestigious jobs including aide to Mayor Daly and associate director to the University of Chicago Hospitals system. Kelly 358-362
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TRIVIA:
– he can speak Indonesian
– he won a Grammy for the spoken word version of Dreams From My Father
– he has read all the Harry Potter books
– he is the eighth left-handed President
– was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009
– he was called “Barry O’Bomber” by his high school teammates because he liked to take difficult shots on the basketball court mentalfloss.com