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"Barack Obama Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." //Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com//. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. . []
 * 1) Obama was born August 4,1961.
 * 2) Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 * 3) Obama was a civil rights lawyer before pursuing a political career.
 * 4) Obama was an Illinois State Senetor.
 * 5) Obama was the first Africa American Prestident of the United States.
 * 6) Obama continuesto enact policy changes in response to the issues of health care and economic crisis.
 * 7) Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where his father worked on oil rings in the Depression.
 * 8) After the Japanese attack on Peal Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley enlisted in the service and marched across Europe in Patton's army.
 * 9) Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembaly line.
 * 10) After the war the couple studied on the G.I. Bill, Bought a house though the Federal Housing Program and, after several move they landed on Hawaii.
 * 11) Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr.,was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza, Kenya.
 * 12) The elder Obama grew up herding groups in Africa, eventually earning a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and persue his dreams of collage in Hawaii.
 * 13) While studying at the University of Hawaii on Manoa, Obama Sr. met fellow student Ann Dunham.
 * 14) They married Febuary 2, 1961, Barack was born six months later.
 * 15) Obama's parents separated when he was two years old, later divorcing.
 * 16) Obama, Sr went on to Harvard to pursue ph.D studies and then returned to Kenya in 1965.
 * 17) In 1966, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, another East-West Center student from Indonesa.
 * 18) A year later, the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born.
 * 19) Several insedents happend in Indonesia, and his mother was afraid of her sons saftey and education so, at the age of 10 Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
 * 20) His sister and his mother ended up moving back to Hawaii later in.

"President Barack Obama." //The White House//. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. . []
 * 1) Obama worked his way though collage with the help of scholarships and student loans.
 * 2) After he moved to Chicago.
 * 3) He then worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities.
 * 4) He went on to attend law school.
 * 5) He became the first African-American to become president of the Harvared Law Review.
 * 6) Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voters regestration drive.
 * 7) He tought constitional law at the University of Chicago.
 * 8) He still remains active in his community.
 * 9) Obama's years of public services are based around his unwavering beliefe in ability to unite people around a polities of purpose.
 * 10) 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.
 * 11) 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.
 * 12) He was elected presedent November 4, 2008.
 * 13) He was sworn January 20, 2009.
 * 14) His wife is Michelle Obama.
 * 15) He has two daughters named, Malia which is 13 and Sasha which is 10.

"Barack Obama - Biography." //The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)//. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. . []
 * 1) Birth name Barack Hussein Obama ll.
 * 2) Nicknames, berry, bama, rock, the one, and no drama obama.
 * 3) Height "6.1"
 * 4) Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable.
 * 5) He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings.
 * 6) He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review.
 * 7) He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation.
 * 8) He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, and married Michelle Robinson, a fellow attorney.
 * 9) Eventually he was elected to the Illinois state senate, where his district included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side.
 * 10) In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
 * 11) His first name comes from the word that means "blessed by God" in Arabic.
 * 12) In the Kenyan town where his father was born, the long-brewed "Senator" brand of beer has been nicknamed "Obama
 * 13) U.S. Senator from Illinois since 3 January 2005
 * 14) Enjoys playing basketball and poker
 * 15) At his wife's suggestion, he quit smoking before his campaign to win the Democratic nomination began.
 * 16) His paternal relatives still live in Kenya.
 * 17) Confessed teenage drug experiences in his memoirs "Dreams from My Father".
 * 18) Was the 27th lawyer to be elected American president.
 * 19) First ever US President to address a Muslim community at an inaugural speech
 * 20) The first US President to be born after the Vietnam War started.

"Barack Obama Biography - Life, Family, Children, Parents, Story, History, Wife, School, Mother, Young." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. . []
 * 1) Barack Obama won his bid for the senate by a large margin.
 * 2) 70 percent of the Illiniose vote.
 * 3) Youngest memeber of the U.S. Senate.
 * 4) Obama declined the job offers from top Manhattan law firms, with their starting salaries that neared the $100,000-a-year range, in order to return to Chicago and work for a small firm that specialized in civil-rights law.
 * 5) During his Harvard Law School years, he took a job as a summer associate at a Chicago firm, and the attorney assigned to mentor him was also a Harvard Law graduate.