Barack Hussien Obama II was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Anne Dunham, was from Witchita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. His parents divorced when he was only two years old and married Lolo Soetoro an Indonesian man with whom she had Barack's half sister, Maya. When Barack was younger he was known as "Barry."
Two years after graduating, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland on Chicago's South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988. In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was also selected editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year.
Barack Obama is, as described in The Audacity of Hope, a Christian. He grew up in a non-religious household. He is said to have developed his Christian views in his adult life. Obama was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and was an active member there for two decades. Now Obama's primary plave of worship is at the Evergreen Chapel at Camp David.
Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America. He is also the current president of the U.S. He is the first African-American U.S. President ever. His Vice President is Joe Biden. Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
In June 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. At first, she would not go on a date with him while they worked together. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992. Obama's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born on July 4, 1998, followed by Natasha, or Sasha, on June 10, 2001. They now have a dog (a Portugese water spaniel) named Bo. Obama lives in the White House with his family and is 49 years old.
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