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Barack Obama Biography (1961-)

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Barack Obama Biography (1961-)

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Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)

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Lives in: Chicago, Illinois

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Zodiac Sign: Leo

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Height: 6' 1" (1.87m)

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Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)

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Religion: United Church of Christ

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Education:

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- Graduated: Columbia University (1983) - Major: Political Science

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- Law Degree from Harvard (1991) - Major: J.D. - Magna Cum Laude

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- Attended: Occidental College

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Career: U.S. Senator from Illinois sworn in January 4, 2005

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Government Committees:

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- Foreign Relations Committee

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Books:

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- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)

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- Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)

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Barack Obama is the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois and a Democratic candidate for president in 2008.

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His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. 

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Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. 

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Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.

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Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas.

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Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. 

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After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Patton's army.

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After the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to Hawaii.

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Dunham's mother went to work on a bomber assembly line. 

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