Full Name - Barack Hussein Obama
Born - August 4Th, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii
Current Hometown - Chicago, Illinois
Affiliated with the Democratic Party
Currently Senator for Illinois
His father was from Kenya
His Mother is from Kansas
His parents met in Hawaii
At the age of six, Obama moved with his family to Djakarta, Indonesia. Four years later, he returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend the esteemed Punahou Academy.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1983. He then moved back to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church based group. The main goals of the overall group were to help out communities with high unemployment and high crime rates. He later decided to, after a few years of doing this, saw that he needed to do more than work at a local level, but needed too get into law and politics to change things. He then went on to get a law degree from Harvard in 1991. He became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
He then returned to Chicago and worked as a civil rights lawyer and taught constitutional law. His "advocacy work" led him to run for state senate where he served for 8 years. He helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton’s election. In 2004, he became the 3rd African American since Reconstruction to be elected to Senate.
He grew up in different places and heard ideas from all different types of people.
He created the "Earned Income Tax Credit" program, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed for early childhood education. Also, after many death row inmates were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.He is (paraphrased) the most proud of his family, including his wife Michelle, and his 2 daughters.
Born - August 4Th, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii
Current Hometown - Chicago, Illinois
Affiliated with the Democratic Party
Currently Senator for Illinois
His father was from Kenya
His Mother is from Kansas
His parents met in Hawaii
At the age of six, Obama moved with his family to Djakarta, Indonesia. Four years later, he returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend the esteemed Punahou Academy.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1983. He then moved back to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church based group. The main goals of the overall group were to help out communities with high unemployment and high crime rates. He later decided to, after a few years of doing this, saw that he needed to do more than work at a local level, but needed too get into law and politics to change things. He then went on to get a law degree from Harvard in 1991. He became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
He then returned to Chicago and worked as a civil rights lawyer and taught constitutional law. His "advocacy work" led him to run for state senate where he served for 8 years. He helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton’s election. In 2004, he became the 3rd African American since Reconstruction to be elected to Senate.
He grew up in different places and heard ideas from all different types of people.
He created the "Earned Income Tax Credit" program, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed for early childhood education. Also, after many death row inmates were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.He is (paraphrased) the most proud of his family, including his wife Michelle, and his 2 daughters.
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