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President Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European ancestry. [1] [2] His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), [3] was a Luo Kenyan [4] from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. [5]
Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-ish-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also ...
Barack Obama was born to an American mother of European descent (except for at least one African ancestor in the colonial period - Punch) and an African father. His mother, Ann Dunham (1942–1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas ; she was mostly of English descent, [ 19 ] with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. [ 20 ]
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [6] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [7]
Daguerreotype photography wasn’t invented until the 1830s, making it impossible for a photograph of the first U.S. president to exist. In January 2009, Barack Obama became the first Black ...
Kamala Harris and Barack Obama have shattered barriers for African Americans who now know that someone who looks like them can be president of a nation that once held slaves — but the barrier ...
First African-American elected President of the United States: Barack Obama [302] First African American First Lady: Michelle Obama; First African American to referee a Super Bowl game: Mike Carey (Super Bowl XLII) First African-American woman elected Speaker of a state House of Representatives: California Rep. Karen Bass