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Barack Obama’s Bio At A Glance

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii

Age 2 – Parents separated and father left

Age 6 – Moved to Indonesia with mother and step-father in 1967

Age 10 – Returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents in 1971

Age 18 – Moved to LA to attend Occidental College in 1979

Age 20 – Transferred to Columbia University in NY in 1981

Age 21 – Father died in car accident in 1982

Age 22 – Graduated from Columbia University with BA in political science and worked for a year

Age 24 – Moved to Chicago in 1985 and worked as director of a church-based community organization

Age 27 – Travelled to Kenya and meet his paternal relatives in 1988

Age 27 – Entered Harvard Law School in late 1988

Age 28 – Gained national media attention as he became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review (student journal) in 1989

Age 30 – Graduated from Harvard Law School and returned to Chicago

Age 31 – Married Michelle in 1992

Age 31 – Directed a voter registration project to register 150 thousands unregistered African Americans in Illinois in 1992

Age 31 – Served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years from 1992 to 2004

Age 32 – Named as one of the "40 under Forty" distinguished people by Crain's Chicago Business in 1993

Age 34 – Mother died in cancer in 1995

Age 34 – Published his first book “Dreams from My Father - The Audacity of Hope” in 1995

Age 36 – Served as Illinois State legislator from 1997 to 2004

Age 37 – 1st daughter Malia was born in 1998

Age 40 – 2nd daughter Sasha was born in 2001

Age 43 – Served as US Senator from 2005 to 2008

Age 47 - Grandmother died the day before election

Age 47 – Became the 44th President of the United States in Jan. 2009

Age 51 – Reelected as the 45th President of the United States in 2012

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