Barack Obama

Any Hussein Obama, Jr.. (born August 4 1961; age 47 years old) is a United States Senator from the state of Illinois. He became the world's attention because the main speech at the Democratic Party National Convention, 2004, when he was still a Senator State of Illinois. That year also, he became the first African descendants who won election to the U.S. Senate as a Democratic. In February 2007 he announced the campaign kepresidenannya. In June 2008, Obama became the first African descendants who wins the nomination of presidential candidates of political parties of the United States. It will be developed in the 2008 presidential election with a pair vice president Joe Biden.

Barack Obama was born in the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii from the father of a graduate of Harvard economists, that of Hussein Obama, Sr.., Of Kenya, and mother Ann Dunham, from Wichita, Kansas. When Obama was born, both parents are students at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

When the age of two years, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya, and he only met with her son once more before died in 1982. Ann Dunham later married Lolo Soetoro (1993/1987 died on March 2? [1]), also a student of East-West Center (MA Geography 1962) from Indonesia. In the small, will use the name 'Barry'. The family then moved to Jakarta, where Obama step-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, was born (Obama also has a step-brothers from his father who married again). When Obama aged 10 years, he returned to Hawaii and care for her grandmother, grandfather, (Madelyn Dunham) and then his mother, for a better education. He entered five classes in the Punahou School, where he graduated with Honors in 1979.