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Barack Hussein Obama

Age:47
Birthdate:Aug 4,1961
Birthplace: Honolulu,Hawaii
Education: Columbia University;Harvard Law School
Wife: Michelle Robinson
Children: Two daughters - Malia(10) and Sasha(7)
Religious affiliation: United Church of Christ

Family: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and a white American mother.His father Barack Obama Sr married his mother Ann Dunham while studying at the University of Hawaii. The couple separated two years after Obama was born. His father ultimately returned to Kenya where he became a noted economist. He died in a car accident in 1982.Obama's mother's second marriage was to an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro. The family moved to Indonesia and Obama remained there until he was 10 when he moved back to Hawaii and lived with his grandparents while studying on a scholarship at the elite Punahou Academy. He has seven half brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father's other marriages, and a half - sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, from his mother's second marriage.

Carreer: After finishing college in 1983, Obama worked for a New York financial consultant and a consumer organisation. He landed a job in Chicagoin 1985 as an organiser for Developing Communities Project, a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighbourhoods. Three years later, Obama left to go to Harvard Law School, where he became the first black president of the law review. He worked as a summer associate at the the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago, where he met his future wife. After graduation from Harvard in 1991,Obama practised civil rights law at a small firm in Chicago, then became a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago in 1993.

Effective office: Obama won a seat in the Illinois state Senate in 1996. He won a heavily contested US Senate seat in 2004, carrying 53% of the Democratic primary vote in an eight-candidate race.