posted on Aug, 9 2013 @ 02:11 AM
Barack Hussein Obama II was born at the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital at 7:24 PM on Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was
Barack Hussein Obama (Kenyan citizen), and his mother was Stanley Ann Dunham (US citizen).
Obama’s mother moved to Indonesia in 1967, and Barack Obama attended the following two schools in the country from age 6-11 :
- Fransiskus Assisi School, elementary school, Jakarta, Indonesia (age 6-8)
- Besuki Public School, elementary school, Jakarta, Indonesia (age 8-11)
Obama and his mother return to Hawaii to live with her parents. Barack Obama lived in Hawaii from age 11 to age 18 . Barack Obama attended Punahou
Prep school in Hawaii where he graduated high school
Obama moved to California in 1979 at age 18 to attend Occidental College after graduation from high school in Hawaii
Obama moved to New York City to attend Columbia University in 1981. He lived there until graduation in 1983 and for a period of time afterward. Obama
eventually moved to Chicago where he landed a job as a community organizer. He worked for about four years before moving to Massachusetts to attend
Harvard Law School
Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Political Science in 1983
Barack Obama entered Harvard Law School at age 27 and attended from 1988 to 1991. He graduated with a JD degree in 1991. While at Harvard, he served
on the board of the Black Law Students Association, and was elected President of the Harvard Law Review in spring 1990