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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 ...
Barack Obama Sr., father of Barack Obama, was the son of Onyango and his second wife Habiba Akumu Obama. Educated in the US at the University of Hawaiʻi and Harvard University, he returned to Kenya, where he became an economist with the government. He served in the ministries of transportation and finance.
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 ...
November 24, 1982 - Barack Obama Sr. dies in a car accident in Kenya. 1992-2004 - Practices civil rights law and teaches constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Former President Barack Obama made sure his wife, Michelle Obama, was celebrated with great fanfare on her 61st birthday. “Happy birthday to the love of my life, @MichelleObama,” Barack, 63 ...
November 5, 1996: Barack Obama begins his political career. ... Barack broke his big news with his wife and daughters by his side. November 4, 2008: Obama is elected president.
[34] [35] In December 1971, Obama was visited for a month by his father, Barack Obama Sr., from Kenya. It was the last time Obama would see his father. This was followed by his mother visiting her son and parents in Honolulu from late 1971 to January 1972. In 1972, Dunham returned to Hawaii, bringing along the young Maya, Obama's half-sister.
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; / ˈ m aɪ. ə s uː ˈ t ɔːr oʊ ˈ ɪ ŋ /; [1] born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.