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obama is born
Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the only president born outside the contiguous 48 states. He was born to an American mother of European descent and an African father. -
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obamas education
n late August 1961, a few weeks after he was born, Barack and his mother moved to the University of Washington in Seattle, where they lived for a year. During that time, the elder Obama completed his undergraduate degree in economics in Hawaii, graduating in June 1962. He left to attend graduate school on a scholarship at Harvard University, where he earned an M.A. in economics. Obama's parents divorced in March 1964. -
obamas mom remarrys
In 1963, Dunham met Lolo Soetoro at the University of Hawaii; he was an Indonesian East–West Center graduate student in geography. The couple married on Molokai on March 15, 1965. -
obama SR. dies
killed in an automobile accident in 1982 -
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obamas legislative career
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding Democratic State Senator Alice Palmer from Illinois's 13th District, which, at that time, spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park–Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn.
He was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, defeating Republican Yesse Yehudah in the general election.
In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee. -
obamas first presidential campaign
he ran for president and won but he did not re elect himself until 2012 -
obamas second presidential campaign
he ran for president again during 2012