Barack Hussein Obama was born in the two year old US state of Hawaii to a white American mother and a black Kenyan father. Obama Sr. grew up herding goats in a small Kenyan village where school was a tin-roof shack. Obama Sr. married and had one son. But in 1959, Obama Sr. left his newborn son and his again pregnant wife for a scholarship at the University of Hawaii. This would not be the last time ambition came before family. It was there that the University’s first black student met the Kansas born, Ann Dunham. Despite the differences in their personalities, Obama Sr. was an assured intellectual whereas Ann was awkward and shy, the couple married. At the time, Ann was three months pregnant. Obama Sr. lied to her that he’d divorced his African wife and mother of four of his children. Six months later, in Honolulu, on 4 August 1961, Barack Obama was born.
But Obama Sr. again put academia before his second family by leaving for a Harvard scholarship. Ann was just 20 when he left. Barack was just two. Obama Sr. and Ann soon separated and in 1964, she filed for divorce.
Fast Facts:
Obama was sworn in as president on the bibles of Martin Luther King and of Abraham Lincoln, both key figures in the freeing of African Americans.
Obama once claimed to have been proud to have campaigned in all 57 states. There are only 50.
After Obama suggested gun reform, many gun sellers sold out of the assault rifle used in the Sandy Hook killings, the AR-15.
In 2008 and 2011 Obama had to produce two separate copies of his birth certificate to prove he was born in the US state of Hawaii and was therefore eligible to be the President of America.
He has admitted to struggling with his attempts at quitting smoking, having to "strenuously" chew nicotine chewing gum.
Barack was known as ‘Barry’ when he was a child.
His Swahili first name means ‘blessed’.
His maternal grandfather fought for Patton in the Second World War while his grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line .
Barack Obama supports the ‘Hammers’, the English Premier League Football team, West Ham.
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