Barack Obama made history with his presidency, as the only Hawaiian-born president and as the first African American to hold the role

Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961. Obama’s parents, Barack H. Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, divorced when he was just two years old.

Following the divorce, his mother remarried an Indonesian man, and Obama spent much of his early childhood there before moving back to Honolulu to live with his grandparents.

He began his higher education at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before transferring to Columbia University to pursue a degree in political science and international relations. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School.

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During his first year at Harvard, Obama worked at the law firm Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where he met Michelle, who would later become his wife. The couple married in 1992 and had two daughters, Malia and Natasha “Sasha.”

Obama’s political career began in 1996 when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He later won a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2004, delivering a much-anticipated keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.

In 2007, Obama declared his candidacy for the presidency, winning the Democratic nomination against Republican John McCain. His campaign was marked by the slogan “Change we can believe in.”

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