President Barack Huessein Obama, Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and his dad, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity Nyanza Province, Kenya. They met in Hawaii, married, and had Barack 6 months later. By the time Obama was two, his parents had separated and his father moved back to Kenya. After his mom remarried and moved to Indonesia, at the age of 10, Obama moved to Hawaii and lived with his maternal grandparents. He enrolled in Punahou Academy where we loved playing basketball and graduated with honors in 1979.
After graduating high school, he studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years, then transferred to Columbia University in New York. He graduated Columbia with a degree in political since in 1983.
In 1988, he attended Harvard Law School where he shortly met Michelle Robinson. He graduated from Harvard in 1991. Obama then moved to Chicago where he taught part time at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004 first as a lecturer and then as a professor. He and Michelle got married on October 3, 1992 and two daughters. Malia was born in 1998 and Sasha was born in 2001.
Back in 1996, Obama decided to run for a seat in the Illinois State Senate and won the election as a Democrat. Then in 2000, Barack ran from the Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives, but didn't get elected. In the 2004 election, he ran for the U.S. Senate and won, he was sworn into office on January 4, 2005. Finally, in 2007, Barack Obama decided to run to be the President of the United States. After beating Hilary Clinton out of the Democratic presidential nomination, he was now up against Republican presidential nominee, John McCain. Mr. Obama and his Vice President, Joe Biden, won the election and were inaugurated on January 20, 2009. In 2012, Obama got reelected and is now serving his next four years in office.
"Barack Obama Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, 2013. Web. 13 Jan. 2013.
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Well done Maddie! Try to always have two sources(you had one listed) and add personal thoughts/opinions to the blog as well.