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A great deal has been written about Barack Hussain Obama 11, the first African-American president of the United States.

I have selected just a few Wikipedia pages.

Barack was the 44th president of the US from 2009-17. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to an American mother of European descent and an African father from Kenya. Recalling his childhood he said - *That my father looked nothing like the people around me - that he was pitch black, my mother white as milk - barely registered in my mind .

His parents, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. had met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. They married on 2nd February1961. Barack was born on 4th August 1961. They divorced in March 1964. His father returned to Kenya where he married for the third time. He only saw his son once-Christmas 1971. He died in a car crash in 1982.

His mother Ann married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian, on March 15th 1965.When his J-1 visa expired he returned to Indonesia. Mother and son followed. From 1970 they lived in the wealthier neighbourhood in the Menteng sub district of Central Jakarta.

Obama went to local Indonesian language schools (6-10) where learned to speak Indonesian fluently.
In 1971 he returned to Honolulu to live with his mother’s parents - Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He attended Punahou - a private college preparatory school - aided by scholarship from 5th grade. He graduated from high school in 1979.
He moved to Los Angles to attend Occidental College on a full scholarship.
In 1981 he transfered to Columbia University in New York City as a junior. There he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and English Literature. He graduated in 1983 with a BA degree and a 3-7 GPA.

After graduating he worked for about a year at Business International Corporation, then as a project coordinator for the New York Public Interest Group.

In 1988 he enrolled in Harvard Law School. He was the first black person to be president of the Harvard Law Review.

In June 1989 he met Michelle Robinson, they married on 3rd October 1992.

After graduation he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School (1992-2004).

He became involved with politics - he is a Democrat. Elected to represent the 13th district (!997-2004) in Illinois. He then ran for the US senate. He was the US Senator for Illinois from January 5th 2005-November 16th 2008 .
In 2008 nominated for president after close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. He chose Joe Biden as his Vice President.

He became the 44 President of the US on 20th January, 2009. He was president for 2 terms of 4 years. Donald Trump, a Republican, replaced him on January20th 2017.

I have included notes on his early life and career, education, family and personal life, legislative career, presidential campaigns the White House and his legacy.

Ranked US’s 8th greatest president