Obama's Personal life

Birth home and place:
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961.

Jobs and Political Standings:
He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and then moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group.
He went to Harvard and got his law degree in 1991
At Harvard he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
He returned to Chicago as a civil rights lawyer and taught constitutional law.
He ran for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years.
In 2004, he was to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

His Family:
His mother, Ann Dunham who grew up in a small town in Kansas.
She moved to Hawaii with her family
Then became a student at the University of Hawaii
His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats.
He had won a scholarship to attend the University of Hawaii that allowed him to leave Kenya and start his career.
That is how his parents met

Obama lives with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, who live in the South Side of Chicago.