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Relationship

Married

Hometown

Chicago, IL

Places I've been

Education

Punahou High School - 1975 to 1979 Occidental College - 1979 to 1981 Columbia University, Politcal Science - 1981 to 1983 Harvard Law School - 1988 to 1991

Work

Developing Communities Project, Director, Community Organizer - 1985 to 1988 Project Vote, Community Organizer - 1992 to 1992 Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Lawyer, Partner as of 1996 - 1993 to 2002 University of Chicago, Senior Lecturer - 1993 to 2004 Illinois State Senate, State Senator - 1997 to 2004 United States Senate, United States Senator - 2004 to 2007 Office of the President of the United States, President of the United States - 2009 to 2010

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Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States.

His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.

With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.

After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants.

He went on to attend law school, where he became the first African—American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.

President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online.

He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

Activities

Basketball, writing, loafing w/ kids

Favorite Music

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Johann Sebastian Bach (cello suites), and The Fugees

Favorite TV Shows

Sportscenter

Favorite Movies

Casablanca, Godfather I & II, Lawrence of Arabia and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Favorite Books

Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison), Moby Dick, Shakespeare's Tragedies, Parting the Waters, Gilead (Robinson), Self-Reliance (Emerson), The Bible, Lincoln's Collected Writings

Favorite Quotes

"The Arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." (MLK)

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