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Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (/ ˈ b ær ə k h uː ˈ s eɪ n oʊ ˈ b ɑː m ə /; [9] [10] born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 [2] [3] – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995 ...
Soetoro met the divorced Ann Dunham at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii, [10] [11] [12] and married on 15 March 1965. [12] [13] Soetoro, a geographer, [12] [14] returned to Indonesia in 1966 [15] to help map Western New Guinea [16] for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son Barack Obama moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete ...
Said to be Barack Obama's half-brothers, Abo, also known as Samson Obama, [161] was born in 1968 and Bernard was born two years later in 1970 to Kezia Obama. In Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote that his Obama relatives doubt that Abo and Bernard are the biological sons of Barack Obama Sr.
Father: Barack Hussein Obama, goat herder-turned-economist. Mother: Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro, anthropologist. Marriage: Michelle (Robinson) Obama (October 3, 1992-present)
[9] [10] [11] Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr. (1934–1982), [12] [13] was a married [14] [15] [16] Luo Kenyan from Nyang'oma Kogelo. [14] [17] His last name, Obama, was derived from his Luo descent. [18] Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on a ...
Former President Barack Obama's family was the subject of a recent article stating a man had filed a lawsuit claiming he was the biological father of Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.
Obama Sr.'s first wife, Kezia, later said she had granted her consent for him to marry a second wife in keeping with Luo customs. [23] On August 4, 1961, at the age of 18, Dunham gave birth to her first child, Barack Obama, in Honolulu. [24] Friends in the state of Washington recall her visiting with her month-old baby in 1961.
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.